Highly infectious disease school remains closed due to TBC

Dangerous infectious disease: Dresdner Schule closed due to TBC examination

Because of a "precautionary TBC investigation" takes place in a Dresden school no lessons. According to a media report, the infectious disease had already been diagnosed with a person at the beginning of the school year. The bacterial infectious disease affects mainly the lungs.

School remains closed for TBC investigation

At a school in Dresden, there is apparently a tuberculosis case: "Due to a precautionary TBC examination will take place on 04. and 05.12.2017 at the high school and the General Education Gymnasium of the HOGA on Zamenhofstraße 61/63 instead of teaching," it says in a message.

In Dresden there will be no lessons in the next few days due to a TBC examination at a school. There seems to be a risk that students and / or teachers have become infected (Image: DOC RABE Media / fotolia.com)

Diagnosis already at the beginning of the school year

According to a report from the "Tag24" portal, one person is currently being hospitalized because of the disease and others may have become infected.

According to the report, the disease was diagnosed in one person at the beginning of the school year.

As part of a routine examination, it turned out that students and / or teachers may have become infected.

Transmission by droplet infection

Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infectious disease that affects the lungs in particular. It used to be called "consumption.".

The triggers are so-called "mycobacteria", which predominantly affect the lungs and are mainly transmitted during coughing, sneezing and speaking.

At the beginning of the disease, nonspecific symptoms such as coughing, night sweats and a slightly elevated temperature are more likely to appear.

Later, the symptoms increase and it can include high fever, persistent cough with sputum and respiratory distress occur. The disease is usually treatable well with antibiotics.

Years can go by from infection to outbreak

According to health experts, the disease can be overlooked during examinations, as it can take years from infection to the onset of TB.

As the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) writes on its website, there may even be "decades after infection" to a disease of tuberculosis, especially if the immune system is weakened. (Ad)