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Guam: 2011 TB exposure/cases

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Editor, Senior Moderator
Source: http://www.guampdn.com/article/20110423/NEWS01/104230303


12:00 AM, Apr. 23, 2011 |

The public health department announced yesterday it sent letters on April 20 to inform 154 people who were potentially exposed to tuberculosis at Guam Memorial Hospital.

The notification covered newborns and older babies because the potential exposure came from a GMH employee who worked in the operating room, as well as the labor, delivery and nursery sections of the hospital...
 
Re: Guam: 2011 TB exposure/cases

Source: http://www.kuam.com/story/14576161/2011/05/05/tb-case-discovered-at-jfk-high

TB case discovered at JFK High
Posted: May 05, 2011 2:54 AM Updated: May 05, 2011 5:13 AM
by Lannie Walker

Guam - A highly infectious disease is discovered at one of Guam's largest high schools. The case so far is said to be isolated, but testing is planned to ensure an outbreak is not on the horizon. Tuberculosis is probably one of the last things a parent wants their child to come home with. But that's what happened recently with a student from John F. Kennedy High School.

Coordinator of the TB Control Program at the Department of Public Health Cecilia Arciaga said, "The individual was seen by a private provider and was diagnosed as a case of active TB, so as soon as the diagnosis was made I made contact with the school informing them..."
 
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