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CA: Employee, Patient Test Positive for Tuberculosis at VA Medical Center in Mather

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Source: http://fox40.com/2016/06/22/employe...-tuberculosis-at-va-medical-center-in-mather/

Employee, Patient Test Positive for Tuberculosis at VA Medical Center in Mather
Posted 7:18 PM, June 22, 2016, by Sara Zendehnam, Updated at 07:17pm, June 22, 2016

MATHER -- An infectious disease rare in the United States made its way into the VA Medical Center Mather.

The VA alerted 800 employees and 600 patients by email and mail after a primary care employee and patient both tested positive for tuberculosis in unrelated cases in April.

Between August 1, 2015, and April 4, 2016, the patient could have potentially exposed five areas in the Mather facility to TB including the injection clinic, urology, radiology oncology, pulmonology and ophthalmology...
 
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