TB scare at Qld university
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One hundred and sixty staff and students at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane will be screened for tuberculosis after one student contracted the disease.
Authorities say at this stage there is no cause for concern.
The director of the Queensland Tuberculosis Control Centre, Tom Konstantinos, says the tests are a standard safety precaution.
"We see approximately 140 TB cases a year in Queensland and about half of them will be infectious when we find them," he said.
"A reasonable number of them happen to work in workplaces with large numbers of people or attend classes with a large number of people."
