1,300 Hospital Patients Possibly Exposed to TB
SACRAMENTO
Hospital officials are looking for as many as 1,300 patients who may have come into contact with a nurse diagnosed with tuberculosis.
Kaiser Permanente’s South Sacramento Medical Center said patients or visitors to the facility’s third floor in the last six months need to be tested.
Officials told the Sacramento Bee that 760 former patients had been contacted and more than 450 people had been tested. Although some of those people had tested positive for exposure to TB, it was too early to tell if they would develop the disease, officials said.
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