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SACRAMENTO—

Parents naturally have a lot of concerns as the new school year is set to get underway next month. City and county health officials are trying to calm those fears though, saying it will be safe for students to return to this school.

This all started last February when a student at Grant Union High School tested positive for active TB. Since that time, more than 400 at that school were tested. Of those tested, about 100 students, faculty, and staff tested positive for the infection, but it was laten form that was not contagious. All of them were treated last May.

TB is a bacterial disease, typically spread through the air when someone with an active form of it coughs. The meeting on Thursday night is to reassure parents and the community at large that this outbreak is now under control. The health and school districts are doing all they can to ensure none of those cases becomes active, but the city wants to make sure all questions from parents are answered.

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“It’s intended to inform the residents in and around Grant High School,” said Allen Warren, Sacramento City Council-member. “I think the issue is generally informative, because it could pop up at any particular place.”

Many in the health district say tuberculosis is more common than most people believe, but over the past decade it has been on the decline here in Sacramento County.