An individual on campus at the University of Victoria who was diagnosed with tuberculosis is under treatment and no longer infectious, says Island Health.
“The majority of folks who develop TB disease have actually been exposed to TB outside of Canada … and they are diagnosed when they are here,” Hoyano said.The health authority is contacting about 185 people determined to be at a higher risk of exposure because of spending a fair amount of time in the same space as the infected individual. It’s recommended that they be screened for TB, Hoyano said.
Tuberculosis, an airborne infectious disease that most often affects the lungs, is treatable and curable, according to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control. Anyone infected through the case at UVic will not have symptoms and therefore won’t be contagious, so they don’t have to take precautionary measures such as wearing a mask or staying at home, said Hoyano, who doesn’t anticipate that many people have been infected.
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