TB cases connected to student

Kristyn Phillips
http://www.chieftain.com/metro/1196057118/1

At Colorado State University-Pueblo several students were found to have latent tuberculosis. The students were suspected to have come in contact with Kalpana Dangol, an international student from Nepal, who passed away in June from active tuberculosis. 17 people were reported to be infected in a Denver newspaper. Surprisingly, Dangol never lived on campus at CSU-Pueblo. Public health officals think that Dangol contracted the disease before she came to the U.S. A list of 174 students that had came in contact with Dangol was given to health officials. These cases are latent TB which does not have the ill effects and is not contagious. If left untreated, latent TB could evolve into active TB later on in their lives. These patients will be treated with a prescription to kill the bacteria.

Tuberculosis can be a very fatal disease. It mostly affects the lungs and is also easily spread though the air by a cough or a sneeze. Today many people are treated to prevent contracting the disease. The students at CSU-Pueblo should be free from the disease after treatment.