A substitute teacher in a kindergarten in Stavanger has been diagnosed with tuberculosis. Now health authorities take blood samples of the children for signs of infection.
Substitute worked in Stokka day care in a short period by two departments. The engagement was completed before the summer holidays, writes Stavanger Aftenblad.
The kindergarten reported even from about tuberkulosesmitten on its website on Tuesday.
– The Substitute has probably been infected on a trip abroad, but have received treatment and are no longer contagious, says kindergarten.
Stavanger University Hospital believes that the woman was not particularly infectious when she worked in the nursery. Anyway now taking infection control office blood samples of children who Vicar has had the most contact with, to track any infection.
– Parents with sick children are also encouraged to inform their general practitioner that the nursery has had a case of infectious TB, highlighting kindergarten.
In the middle of July enlightened Trondheim municipality that four people have tested positive for tuberculosis at a primary school in Trondheim. They were infected by an employee who had been diagnosed with the disease in April.
Tuberculosis was some 20 years ago almost extinct in Norway, with around 200 cases a year, by comparison of the situation in the early 1900s when far over 20,000 were infected. Number of cases in recent years has begun to rise again and most infection cases have occurred in other countries, shows NIPH statistics. (NTB)
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