OVER 700 INFANTS POTENTIALLY EXPOSED TO TB AT TEXAS HOSPITAL (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Sunday, September 21, 2014, 22:20

At least 700 infants may have been exposed to tuberculosis in the nursery area of a Texas hospital. The babies were put at risk of catching the contagious disease by a member of staff who was infected, health officials said.

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Forty hospital employees were also put at risk of catching the disease. City Department of Public Health officials told AP that the exposure happened between September 2013 and August 2014 at Providence Memorial Hospital in El Paso.

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