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Brookville -- State wildlife officials plan to collect 650 deer heads from hunters in eastern and Southern Indiana next weekend to test for bovine tuberculosis.
Today, tuberculosis testing is scheduled to take place at Plant City High School. Health workers have confirmed a case at the school.
About 300 of the school's 2,100 students underwent testing on Tuesday after a classmate was confirmed positive for tuberculosis.
( Public Library of Science ) In this week's PLoS Medicine, Penelope Enarson (International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Child Health Lung Division, Paris, France) and colleagues in Malawi and South Africa describe the development, scale-up and achievements of this program.
Cornell’s Ithaca campus has received nearly $100 million for research projects from the federal government’s stimulus package as of Nov. 1. Weill Cornell Medical College received an additional $22 million from the program, as of Oct. 8, the most recent date for which figures for the college are available. The money is funding a wide variety of projects, from tuberculosis research to development ...
Plant City, Florida - Hillsborough Health Department officials confirmed a case of tuberculosis at Plant City High School. Health officials received confirmation on Wednesday and the next day letters went out to student's families.
A confirmed case of tuberculosis at Plant City High School has prompted health department officials to recommend testing of seven separate classes and all the lunch room personnel, school district spokeswoman Linda Cobbe said today.
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But researchers still don't know why a certain therapy appears to reactivate latent TB.
Department of Health spokesman Steve Huard said the student is home, in isolation, and is expected to be OK.
Officials confirmed that a person at Plant City High School has tested positive for tuberculosis.
