Active tuberculosis found at University of Missouri

[jpak]

Source: abc17news.com

COLUMBIA, Mo. - A University of Missouri student has left campus voluntarily after being diagnosed with active tuberculosis, the MU News Bureau said in a news release Monday.

MU officials are working with local health authorities as they identify other people who need to be tested for the illness, the release said.

“The student has been extremely cooperative with campus and local health officials,” Susan Even, director of the MU Student Health Center, said in the release. “We’ll continue to provide any assistance necessary to the Columbia/Boone County Health department and provide the community with periodic updates.”

Health department spokesman Jason Wilcox said the department is working with MU Student Health to identify the people who have been in close contact with the infected student. Health authorities will follow up with those people on an individual basis, he said.

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[badhair77]

1. The worst of our past continues to come back to haunt us.

I knew one person who had TB back in the 30s or 40s. She was an older neighbor when I was a child. She spent some time in a sanitorium.

When I was teaching TB tests were mandatory till around 2000. They were not required the last years I taught. Frightening that it’s made a return.

[FakeNoose]

2. I grew up in Missouri in the 50's and 60's - we had TB tests every year in school

Every kid in every grade school (as far as I know) got the TB patch or air "popgun" test. If it showed positive there was a followup doctor visit and it was all paid for by the government. Not sure if it was the Missouri or Saint Louis County government, because I was a kid and they didn't tell us those things. These public health programs kept all of us safe, because if anyone got sick, we were all exposed. What happened to those great programs?

[groundloop]

6. Tax cuts happened to those programs

Yep, when I was in elementary school all the kids lined up and got our TB test. Once TB was largely eliminated our right wing didn't see the need for the tests anymore and figured that was a program that could be cut to cut their taxes.

[ck4829]

7. What happened? Valuing human lives over money became 'SOCIALISM' in the eyes of politicians.

[lynintenn]

3. My grandson is going to school there this fall

They have had their share of bad karma lately . Their athletic department is under scrutiny also.

[Gore1FL]

4. Why can't we find Waldo, instead? nt

[idahoblue]

5. I wonder where this person contracted it.

As a nurse, I have seen a lot of TB, not that uncommon. We were tested yearly but that was stopped a number of years ago. I don’t know what the big city hospitals do. I worked my last 30 years in a low risk community. When I worked in Las Vegas, we saw quite a few cases.