Dismissal Wednesday at Dillard High School had more students wearing masks because the school district reported that one student at the school came to school with active tuberculosis.
That’s unusual because routine skin tests done by pediatricians detect exposure to TB, and when it’s caught at that stage, the respiratory disease is easily treated before symptoms show up. There is no vaccine to prevent it, and the bacterial infection can be fatal.
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