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| TB testing started for 11,400 Nevada inmates |
| By AP |
| Published: 02/14/2005 |
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Testing has started on about 11,400 prison inmates after some staff and prisoners tested positive for exposure to tuberculosis at the Nevada State Prison. Fritz Schlottman, spokesman for the state Department of Corrections, said last Wednesday that 2,500 officers and other staffers at various prisons already have been tested and found to be negative for TB. The extensive testing began after eight staffers at Nevada State Prison, located in Carson City, tested positive during routine, once-a-year examinations. Schlottman said subsequent X-rays showed they didn't have the disease. Inmates at the prison also were tested and 19 came up positive. Further examinations cleared all but one inmate, who was taken to a prison hospital for further testing to see if he actually is infected. Tests for all inmates in the state's prisons normally are done in May, but Schlottman said the exams are being done now because of the concern about TB, a disease caused by bacteria that typically lodges in the lungs. "This is a lot of tests, but it's better to be safe," Schlottman said. The prison spokesman also said a "town hall" meeting with about 200 NSP inmates was scheduled last Wednesday so that inmates could ask questions of medical staffers about TB. The National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention said there has been a steady decline in the number of people with TB but it is still a problem with more than 16,000 cases reported in 2000 in the United States. |
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