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Dozens to be tested after tuberculosis case at Niagara private school: DiManno
By Rosie DiMannoColumnist
Thu., April 27, 2017
The student was sickly and slovenly.
But colds and coughs are common in high schools. ?And he?s a teenage boy,? stresses Meghan Wood, director of Royal Elite International Academy, a private high school in Niagara-on-the-Lake that caters primarily to foreign students. ?Sometimes teenage boys can be dishevelled. That had nothing to do with it anyway.?
This teenage student, however, has been diagnosed with an active case of tuberculosis. He is in quarantine.
The 18-year-old from China, according to sources at the academy, appeared ill as far back as September. He only sought medical attention in February, by which point he was coughing up blood.
Subsequently, the Niagara Region public health department was called in. Forty-nine students and staff are either getting skin tests or ? because some have already returned home at end of term ? letters addressing them to get tested in their home country. (For accuracy purposes, a wait period of at least eight weeks is required between last contact with the active TB patient and administration of the test.)...
Dozens to be tested after tuberculosis case at Niagara private school: DiManno
By Rosie DiMannoColumnist
Thu., April 27, 2017
The student was sickly and slovenly.
But colds and coughs are common in high schools. ?And he?s a teenage boy,? stresses Meghan Wood, director of Royal Elite International Academy, a private high school in Niagara-on-the-Lake that caters primarily to foreign students. ?Sometimes teenage boys can be dishevelled. That had nothing to do with it anyway.?
This teenage student, however, has been diagnosed with an active case of tuberculosis. He is in quarantine.
The 18-year-old from China, according to sources at the academy, appeared ill as far back as September. He only sought medical attention in February, by which point he was coughing up blood.
Subsequently, the Niagara Region public health department was called in. Forty-nine students and staff are either getting skin tests or ? because some have already returned home at end of term ? letters addressing them to get tested in their home country. (For accuracy purposes, a wait period of at least eight weeks is required between last contact with the active TB patient and administration of the test.)...