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Seattle hospital staff, patients may have been exposed to tuberculosis

By Seattle Times  
   January 27, 2017

A patient diagnosed with tuberculosis may have come into contact with 150 hospital staff and up to 45 patients at Harborview Medical Center, leading to precautionary testing for those possibly exposed to the infectious disease. The patient who tested positive for TB suffers from several chronic conditions and did not show obvious symptoms for the disease.

 

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