Results tagged “tuberculosis”

This morning's Post expands on yesterday's Metro press release, which admitted that a MetroAccess driver tested positive for tuberculosis this fall. The driver in question was removed from his role in mid-October, but the more pressing concern is the 762 riders that could possibly have caught the airborne infection, which propitiously was not a more advanced, drug-resistant strain of the disease. Those who have tuberculosis can pass the infection by simply being in close contact with others -- the infection spreads through the mouth by coughing and sneezing -- but it can also be spread simply by speaking. The Post's report notes that local health departments believe that about 100 people have a "serious" risk of being infected.