California: TB diagnosed in Sacramento H.S. students

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Grant Union HS Student Diagnosed with Tuberculosis
Posted Monday, February 24th 2014 @ 4pm by KFBK News - Mike Simpson

Sacramento County health officials say a local high school student has been diagnosed with tuberculosis.

That student from Grant Union High is currently undergoing care and letters are going out to parents of students who may have been exposed...

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Re: California: TB diagnosed in a Sacramento H.S. student

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21 Students At Grant High School Exposed To Tuberculosis
Andrew Nixon / Capital Public Radio
Health officials say 21 students at a Sacramento high school appear to have been exposed to tuberculosis.
Thursday, March 13, 2014

The students at Grant High School were given skin tests for the disease after another student there came down with TB. The skin tests came back positive...

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Re: California: TB diagnosed in a Sacramento H.S. student

Source: http://fox40.com/2014/04/30/tubercul...n-high-school/

Local News
Tuberculosis Testing Expanded at Grant Union High School
11 hours ago
by Lonnie Wong
Reporter

SACRAMENTO-

The Sacramento County public health officer says 500 additional students and staff will be tested for tuberculosis at Grant Union High School.

The school reported in February that a student had an active case of TB. Because the disease is transmitted through the air, those who had closest contact with the student were tested. A high percentage showed signs of the disease.

?Forty-seven out of about 200 students tested positive with a skin test,? Public Health Officer Dr. Olivia Kasirye said.

The forty-seven had a non-contagious version called latent TB...

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Re: California: TB diagnosed in a Sacramento H.S. student

Source: http://fox40.com/2014/05/14/more-tha...o-high-school/

More than 100 Test Positive for TB at Grant Union High School
by Sam Cohen
Executive Producer of Digital Content

SACRAMENTO-

Testing of staff and students at a Sacramento high school has resulted in more than 100 people diagnosed with a form of tuberculosis...

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111 students, staff at a Sacramento-area high school test positive for latent TB
Suzanne Phan, KXTV 11:04 a.m. PDT May 15, 2014


SACRAMENTO - High school students and parents are demanding answers about a tuberculosis scare at Grant Union High School. Test results show 111 students and staff tested positive for latent TB.

"My brother is on the track team and he's a football player. He's positive for it," student Rodrigo Prieto said.

Students and parents packed into the cafeteria at Grant Union High in the Del Paso Heights neighborhood Wednesday night to raise their concerns about what the new test results mean...

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Re: California: TB diagnosed in 5 Sacramento H.S. students

Source: http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2014/07...cials-say.html

Sacramento health officials say Grant High has TB outbreak
By Diana Lambert
July 1, 2014 Updated 1 hour ago

Grant Union High School is in the midst of a tuberculosis outbreak, Sacramento County health officials said today.

After previously reporting only one case of active TB, officials said four more students tested positive for the active disease, which attacks the lungs and can be fatal. Scientists consider three related tuberculosis cases an outbreak, said Sacramento County Public Health Officer Olivia Kasirye.

The health department has tested nearly 500 students and school employees since a student at the school tested positive for active TB in February.

The health department has diagnosed 120 people at Grant High with latent tuberculosis, which has no symptoms and is not infectious but can become active after a long period of dormancy. Twenty-four of those have completed treatment and 55 others are being treated...

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Tuberculosis Outbreak at Sacramento High School
SACRAMENTO, Calif. ? Jul 2, 2014, 11:47 AM ET
Associated Press

A California high school is at the center of a tuberculosis outbreak linked to an infectious student who tested positive for active TB in February, county health officials said Wednesday.

Four more students at Grant Union High School in Sacramento have contracted active TB. Three related tuberculosis cases are considered an outbreak, Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman Laura McCasland said.

Four relatives and friends of the student who initially tested positive have also contracted active TB ? bringing the total to nine known cases...

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Source: http://www.sacbee.com/2014/07/21/656...-outbreak.html

Fear festers following outbreak of tuberculosis at Grant
By Diana Lambert
dlambert@sacbee.com
Published: Monday, Jul. 21, 2014 - 12:00 am

In the shadows of Grant Union High School, The 3 B?s barbershop hosts Little League sign-ups, fundraising carwashes and community association meetings.

These days, the red stucco shop is where people come to talk about tuberculosis.

Shannon Daniel, who works at the barbershop, lamented that his son was one of 120 students and employees diagnosed with a noninfectious form of the disease. ?As a parent, I?m frustrated that my kid contracted something from school,? Daniel said as he ran his clippers through a child?s hair last week.

Del Paso Heights residents have been on edge since a Grant student attended school in February with active tuberculosis. She had the more serious form that attacks the lungs and can be fatal. Many have complained that school and county officials were slow to release information and that the health department waited too long to offer free schoolwide testing that they feel might have slowed the contagion. A community meeting for them to air their concerns is scheduled for Thursday...

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Source: http://fox40.com/2014/08/28/more-tb-...n-high-school/

More TB Exposure Patients After Latest Round of Testing at Grant Union High School
Posted 12:12 PM, August 28, 2014, by Sam Cohen


SACRAMENTO-

Three dozen students and staff at Grant Union High School have tested positive for exposure to tuberculosis in the latest round of testing.

Of the more than 450 people screened last week, about 200 students had been in the same classrooms as the initial student who tested positive for TB in March, or in rooms that shared air circulation systems...