EXPERTS in public health medicine, disease surveillance and respiratory illness will gather in Cork on Monday night to address parents of children attending two creches where 19 people have been diagnosed with TB.

AN AVERAGE of three cases of TB a week have been diagnosed at two Cork creches since March 15, bringing to 18 the record number of cases confirmed.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) is to set up additional vaccination clinics on Monday for children attending two Cork creches where the number of TB cases has risen to 16.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) has taken the unusual step of requesting chest X-rays for two groups of toddlers who tested negative for TB at two Cork creches.

DOCTORS tackling a TB outbreak in Cork will begin screening at a city creche again this morning where an adult case of the disease was confirmed last week.

UP to 12 children at a Cork city childcare centre face a lengthy course of antibiotic treatment to prevent the development of full blown tuberculosis (TB) after a former staff member was diagnosed with the disease.

SCREENING for TB at a childcare facility in Cork where six people tested positive earlier this week has been completed with no additional positive results.