More than 500 people asked to test for tuberculosis after case at Nebraska day care
The infected person was part of the YMCA’s drop-in child care program, so those at risk of exposure are primarily young kids.
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@nursefrombirth I’ve read that Tuberculosis is one of the most ancient of diseases that has plagued mankind.
Many people, I understand, think of the old west when they think of TB, of sanitariums and what not, but I’ve worked in locked facilities, care centers, etc and my father was a nurse that worked in prisons and ER.
It’s still very much out there, and is a kind of quiet plague. Every now and again it makes enough noise to rise above the din.
May we soon find its end.