Overview
- Local health authorities activated the municipal tuberculosis-control plan after confirming infection in a sixth-year student at Colegio Galileo Galilei.
- Health teams identified classmates, teachers and staff as close contacts and issued appointments at the CEMA outpatient center for diagnostic testing.
- The student’s family and other close contacts remain under clinical follow-up with the physician who made the diagnosis.
- Authorities report the situation is contained with no additional cases disclosed to date, and Región Sanitaria VIII and city hospitals are coordinating ongoing monitoring.
- Specialists explain that TB spreads through the air but usually stops being contagious a few weeks after proper treatment, which patients must complete to be cured.