Fresh TB cases bring Crab Lane school total to 47

ANOTHER child has been diagnosed with full-blown TB at a Cork primary school and six more cases of latent infection have been detected, bringing to 47 the number of pupils and staff infected with the disease.

The latest figures come in the wake of a second round of screening of approximately 200 pupils and staff at Scoil Iósaf Naomha, Crab Lane, Ballintemple, in Cork city, where an outbreak of TB was identified on August 10.

Seven pupils have since been diagnosed with full-blown or active TB and 35 have latent, non-contagious TB infection. Five staff have a latent form of the disease.