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Review to be carried out at UHG after a dozen staff contracted TB

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Review to be carried out at UHG after a dozen staff contracted TB

Galway Bay fm newsroom - A review is to be carried out into an incident at University Hospital Galway, which saw over a dozen staff members contract TB.

The matter was raised in the Dáil by Deputy Catherine Connolly, who cited the admittance of a patient with a history of the disease earlier this year.

She claimed that despite this history, the patient was not properly isolated and as a result over a dozen staff contracted latent TB

Latent TB may not cause illness and is not infectious - but the bacteria remains in the body forever and increases risk of developing TB later in life.

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