Japan - tuberculosis mass infection in Yokohama city crisis management section, 26 fire department personnels infected

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20 Jun., publicly announced

26 fire department personnels infected with TB

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They are not serious conditions
only a man in his 30s has a shadow on the lung
2 personnels are in the course of examination

in December 2010
a man in his 40s
he has a cough, sputums

3 March 2011
the doctor diagnosed tuberculosis

4 March 2011
hospitalized(discharged from hospital in May)

public health center investigated the infection route
it found 25 from 52 personnels(from 23 years old to 69 years old)

info
13 March to 22 May
Yokohama city dispatched 16 of 25 personnels to disaster area
the local population are reckoned to be no infected

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