Saturday, January 22, 2011
Thomas Memorial Hospital Warns Of Active TB Case
WEST VIRGINIA....
Thomas Memorial Hospital has notified a group of patients and medical personnel to get tested for tuberculosis after a patient with the bacterial infection was treated in the South Charleston hospital in late November or early December as an outpatient. He was later diagnosed with active TB. Tuberculosis is a contagious, airborne bacterium that can destroy body tissue, usually the lungs, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It also can damage the brain and other organs.
There are two types of tuberculosis -- active TB, where someone is contagious, and latent TB that means you've been exposed and you have the bacteria in your body, but it doesn't mean you're contagious or sick.
Thomas Memorial Hospital has notified a group of patients and medical personnel to get tested for tuberculosis after a patient with the bacterial infection was treated in the South Charleston hospital in late November or early December as an outpatient. He was later diagnosed with active TB. Tuberculosis is a contagious, airborne bacterium that can destroy body tissue, usually the lungs, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It also can damage the brain and other organs.
There are two types of tuberculosis -- active TB, where someone is contagious, and latent TB that means you've been exposed and you have the bacteria in your body, but it doesn't mean you're contagious or sick.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 9:45 PM 
