Nursery World - Public is reassured after TB at nursery

Three children at a nursery school in London were confirmed as having tuberculosis late last week and are undergoing full treatment against the disease, having been infected by a member of staff. The move followed a screening of all 30 children, aged two to five, and staff attending Wee Ones in the south London borough of Wandsworth, by Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Health Authority's public health communicable disease control team.

The move followed a screening of all 30 children, aged two to five, and staff attending Wee Ones in the south London borough of Wandsworth, by Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Health Authority's public health communicable disease control team.

Twenty-five of the children required screening for TB following contact with the member of staff with the infection, and 24 were followed up and had a chest X-ray. Sixteen of these children are on a six-month single daily dose of antibiotics, while the three children confirmed as having the disease have been put on a triple daily dose of antibiotics for six months.

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