150 students at Ga. school to be tested for TB

NEWNAN, Ga. (AP) -- School officials in west Georgia say about 150 students will undergo testing for tuberculosis.<br /> <br /> The skin tests are expected to be administered Friday at Newnan High School in Coweta County.<br /> <br /> The Georgia Department of Public Health sent letters to parents of Newnan High students, telling them that one student was suspected of having TB.<br /> <br /> A district health director wrote in the letter that the risk of infection from that initial case is minimal.<br /> <br /> Health officials wrote in the letters that the most common way to become infected is to spend a long period of time with a person who has active TB disease. They said that TB infection can be treated and cured and prevented from progressing to active disease if it is identified and treated.

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