Cork parents call for children to be vaccinated now

Parents of children at a Cork primary school — where the numbers infected with tuberculosis (TB) have risen to 25 — want every child in the school to receive the TB vaccination as a matter of priority.

Five pupils of Ballintemple National School on Crab Lane have now been diagnosed with full-blown cases of TB, while a further 20 have been diagnosed with a latent form of the disease.