Overview
- Health authorities are testing about 100 children from the daycare after an employee was diagnosed with open, contagious tuberculosis during a trip abroad.
- A close-contact child tested positive for TB infection and is receiving preventive antibiotics while further checks assess contagiousness.
- Children under five who had close contact are starting preventive antibiotic courses in line with Robert Koch Institute guidance.
- Older children are being screened for infection first, with testing of affected adults set to follow.
- Officials plan repeat testing before Pentecost to catch later positives and stress that the wider public faces no danger because TB usually spreads only after long, close indoor exposure.