SAINT JOHN, N.B. – Testing for tuberculosis starts Friday for hundreds of students at the Saint John campus of the University of New Brunswick.
A student at the university has tested positive for an active case of the bacterial infection.
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However, Dr. Scott Giffin, the regional district medical health officer, says the student is being treated in isolation and there is no threat to public health.
He says classmates of the infected student will be tested for a latent form of tuberculosis that has no symptoms and can stay dormant in the lungs for years.
Giffin says latent tuberculosis isn’t transmissible.
The university says it hopes to have the testing wrapped up within the next few weeks.
(News 88.9)
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