Adults and children to be tested in TB scare

CLOSE to 250 children and adults will be screened for TB in the coming days after it emerged two pre-schools had employed a worker infected with the disease.

The person involved worked at the two facilities prior to being diagnosed. These are the Panda Paws crèche in Eastgate Business Park, Little Island, Co Cork, and a second pre-school in the south side of Cork city which the Health Service Executive (HSE) has refused to identify.

Screening at Panda Paws gets underway this morning beginning with toddlers cared for in the room where the infected staff member worked. It will continue into next week.