Overview
- Health authorities identified a pulmonary, baciliferous tuberculosis case in a woman who works at the El Castillo club and she is now receiving treatment.
- Earlier this month epidemiology teams, Osakidetza staff and Askabide intervened at the club and performed tests and chest X‑rays on a small number of contacts at Cruces Hospital.
- Authorities say they have struggled to locate most close contacts because clients are anonymous and the club has offered limited cooperation, prompting a formal request for the club's worker census.
- The Ertzaintza has already visited the venue at health officials' request and plans to return to gather more information for contact tracing.
- Officials have internally alerted health services and are preparing a public communication to urge anyone who used the club during the exposure period to seek testing; a press report of an 11‑case outbreak remains unconfirmed by authorities.