on Friday morning, it emerged that more pupils are infected with tuberculosis after an outbreak in november on Sofiendalskolen in Haslev.
the Rest of the class pupils continue to be investigated, and now the figure is up to 14 infected, while more may come as the investigation progresses.
It confirms the school principal Mette Løvbjerg to Ekstra Bladet.
Sofiendalskolen is a department of Midtskolen, which is an association of several small local schools in the area surrounding Wrentham.
school Principal Mette Løvbjerg tells that the school has taken the situation in hand, so that all of the potentially infected can be examined.
– When it was discovered, we began a collaboration with Roskilde Hospital, who unlike us knows anything about it here, and about how we should relate to it.
– I wrote to all of forældreintra, that there had been such a case of contagious pulmonary tuberculosis, and that his or her student was in treatment and was held at the home, to smittefaren was the drive over, she says.
Roskilde Hospital was then to investigate all the persons, as the student had been in close contact with, so that they could identify the students, teachers and family members who had been infected.
– So I wrote a special note to parents of classmates and those who were taught together in the classroom, where I attached an information leaflet, and I also wrote, that they would be contacted by Roskilde Hospital, with the aim of a study, says Mette Løvbjerg.
the Screening of potentially infected started in the beginning of november and remains up to now. It is the results of this screening, which comes forward in these days. All of the examinations are not yet implemented, and there may therefore be more infected.
in addition to the first student, who developed pulmonary tuberculosis, so the other infected not actually been sick. They are infected with latent tuberculosis, which means that they are infected by the bacterium, but the disease has not yet developed.
It is important, therefore, that the infected pupils receive medical treatment, so they can get rid of the bacteria and avoid the to develop tuberculosis, which can potentially be fatal.
the Student, who developed tuberculosis, has already been through the treatment process and is therefore no longer a carrier, then the person is back to school again.
Latent tuberculosis
in addition to the first pupil is no one at the school is sick of tuberculosis yet.
It is not because they are infected with latent tuberculosis, which means that they have the bacteria in the body, but it has not yet developed into actual tuberculosis, and therefore show they have not yet symptoms of the disease.
Latent tuberculosis infects not, and only 5-10 percent of infected persons develop the disease. The bacterium can, however, live in the body for several decades, and the disease can thus develop in the course of his life.
Hiv children and patients with lantent infection are offered preventive treatment. It is this type of treatment, as the infected students at Sofiendalskolen now undergoing.
A røntgenfoto of the lungs is one of the methods that you can use to diagnose active tuberculosis. Latent tuberculosis on the other hand will require other methods such as, for example, a special blood test.
