27 People at Kansas High School Test Positive for Tuberculosis

[Purveyor]

More than two dozen people at a high school in Kansas have tested positive for tuberculosis.

After about 300 students and staff at the school were tested, 27 of them, or 8%, were found to be infected with TB, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.

The large number of instances of TB comes less than two weeks after one student at the school tested positive for the illness.

“The number of individuals with TB infection does not exceed what we would anticipate in this setting,” said Lougene Marsh, director of the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment. “Of course, we had hoped we wouldn’t find any additional TB cases, but we knew this was a possibility.”

None of the individuals who tested positive are showing symptoms of TB, meaning they do not have the disease, Marsh said. They are undergoing treatment to ensure their infections do not become sick.

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http://time.com/3749219/27-people-kansas-high-school-test-positive-tuberculosis/?xid=gonewsedit&google_editors_picks=true

[tblue37]

1. "A" Kansas high school = uninformative. Olathe Northwest HS, in Olathe, KS.

Since I live in Kansas, I wanted to know where in Kansas. The Time article also left out the essential detail. It took THREE link clicks to find out *where* in Kansas this high school was located.

Bad reporting! (Not you--the so-called journalists who wrote the articles.)

[KamaAina]

2. More bad reporting!

They are undergoing treatment to ensure their infections do not become sick.

Try "They are undergoing treatment to ensure their infections do not become active." or "They are undergoing treatment to ensure they do not become sick."

[tblue37]

3. That's bad writing/editing. But leaving out key info--

Last edited Wed Mar 18, 2015, 06:23 PM - Edit history (1)

Well, reporters used to learn the who, what, when, WHERE, why" list, but apparently they don't any more.