{"id":353477,"date":"2015-05-13T17:31:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T22:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=353477"},"modified":"2015-05-14T17:15:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T22:15:05","slug":"agency-confirms-active-tuberculosis-case-in-gregg-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=353477","title":{"rendered":"Agency Confirms &#8220;Active Tuberculosis Case&#8221; in Gregg County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/thumb_Kilgore_College.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/thumb_Kilgore_College.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_Kilgore_College\" width=\"151\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-353478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/thumb_Kilgore_College.jpg 151w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/thumb_Kilgore_College-150x120.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><\/a>KILGORE &#8212; With confirmation of a case of infectious tuberculosis in Gregg County, a group of people at Kilgore College has been included in a broader pool of about 60 people sent for testing.  The Kilgore News Herald reports the local investigation is being spearheaded by the Texas Department of State Health Services, which notified KC officials of a student&#8217;s possible infection May 6. This week, the agency reached out to locals who may have come in contact with the individual, encouraging them to seek testing as a precautionary measure. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Department of State Health Services is currently investigating an active tuberculosis case in Gregg County,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d agency spokesperson Christine Mann confirmed Wednesday. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153As part of that investigation, we&#8217;re notifying community contacts for testing \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 probably close to 60 people\u00e2\u20ac\u009d including family members and others in varying degrees of contact with the patient.   \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are notifying less than 20 individuals at Kilgore College.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  The student spent a relatively limited amount of time on campus, KC spokesman Chris Craddock noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KILGORE &#8212; With confirmation of a case of infectious tuberculosis in Gregg County, a group of people at Kilgore College has been included in a broader pool of about 60 people sent for testing. The Kilgore News Herald reports the local investigation is being spearheaded by the Texas Department of State Health Services, which notified &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=353477\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Agency Confirms &#8220;Active Tuberculosis Case&#8221; in Gregg County<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":353478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 07:36:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353479,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353477\/revisions\/353479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/353478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}