Tuberculosis -- United States
Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium [Tacoma, Washington] officials said they are taking extra steps to ensure the health and safety of their staff, visitors, and animals after some staff members who work with and around elephants tested positive for latent tuberculosis (TB) infection. Tuberculosis spreads only in the active stage. Currently, tests show no active cases of the disease in people.
Those with latent tuberculosis are not sick and cannot infect anyone, according to Tacoma-Pierce County
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6697446&promed&0
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