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Twenty students at Science and Discovery High School in Chester have tested positive for tuberculosis, Chester Upland School District spokesman Joel Avery said Tuesday...
Student tests positive for TB exposure
Updated at 07:11 PM today
CHESTER, Pa. - December 22, 2010 (WPVI) -- The Chester Upland School District says it took a very proactive stand when it learned that a student in one of its high schools was exposed to tuberculosis.
The student attends the Science and Discovery High School in Chester and came in contact with someone who had TB. School officials sent letters and consent forms to the parents of nearly 300 students. 200 came back granting permission for the teens to get skin scratch tests for TB. 20 of them tested positive for what is called latent TB; this means they carry the germ, but don't have an active case...
Pennsylvania Profile (2010) from PA Dept of Health:
In 2008, Pennsylvania reported:
• The 24th highest rate of TB among states in the United States (3.1 per 100,000 persons). (*In 2009, ranking dropped to 32nd)
• 47.3% of TB cases occurred in foreign-born persons. http://www.cdc.gov/tb/statistics/rep...09/table20.htm
"The number of reported TB cases in Pennsylvania fell from 447 in 1998 to 236 in 2009; a 47-percent drop. However, 9.3 percent of TB cases tested in 2009 were resistant to at least one traditional treatment medication." http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/183748.php
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