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ALL STAFF AND students at a Cork secondary school are being screened for TB after two cases of tuberculosis were confirmed at the school.
The Department of Public Health said it was notified of a case of TB in a teenager and a second case of active TB was identified during a screening process.
They are now both under the care of a respiratory physician and on anti-TB treatment.
Tuberculosis is an infection that usually affects the lungs. TB is treated with a combination of antibiotics over many months and is curable if the patient takes the appropriate medication as prescribed.
Symptoms of TB can include fever, night sweats, cough, unexplained weight loss, blood in the sputum and unusual tiredness.
In a statement the HSE said, “The public health investigating team have decided to extend screening to all staff and students in the school. This is in line with best practice and is being done as a precaution to rule out spread of latent infection.”
The screenings include a skin test and, if needed, blood tests and chest x-rays.
In a statement the HSE said, “The findings from this screening process identified a number of persons with latent (dormant) TB infection (LTBI).”
However, it stressed that the contacts with latent TB infection are not TB cases.
Latent TB means that TB is dormant in the body and the person has no symptoms. The person cannot spread TB to others. However, they may be at risk of becoming a TB case sometime in the future.
A person with latent TB is either offered either a course of preventive antibiotics or is followed up with regular chest-x-rays.
The statement confirmed that they are being followed up by the staff of the Public Health Department, Cork.
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Since when are big bag of cans with the lads classed as groceries?
@I Crow: They’re more than groceries , they’re staples!!!
I’m basically 95% Bulmers and 5% Iceberger these days.
That’s hilarious. Heatwave- buy extra groceries, clothes, furniture, toys…. Poor weather conditions- buy extra groceries, clothes, toys. Buy buy buy!
Where do kantar get these figures ? How accurate are they. Dunnes, lild and Aldi are private companies and don’t give out this information.
@Martin Sinnott: from the named research firm in the article. You are very suspicious. Hope you haven’t had a bad experience in the past making you not trust people.
@Martin Sinnott: private companies supply data all the time for many reasons , they want to know how they are performing in market share ? They want to compare how their competitors are performing , research is conducted all the time for all kinds of data , mobile companies want to know their market share , car companies the list is endless , being private companies doesn’t mean they won’t share performance information , most industries have some credible source , in this case kantar are the reputable research company and as they monitor the data ongoing basis you can sure it is pretty accurate actually
@Dave Hammond: Lidl/Aldi are on top now with 23.1% and they are the best.
@Martin Sinnott: They give a sample audience scanners and pay them to record their weekly shopping (you can apply for those positions), that data is used for the trends and market share projections.
Only part of the data is made public, the specifics are sold back to the supermarkets.
The price of a bottle of sunscreen is just amazing €10 to €15 on average!
Previously for at home in Ireland one bottle of factor 15 would still have a good bit left in it for at least 2 or 3 years…
@Dotty Dunleary: try Aldi’s sunscreen
@Dotty Dunleary: I wonder what street it is you’re buying your sunscreen on, because it’s not the same street as I’m buying my sunscreen on. Down to Lildi with ya.
@Dotty Dunleary: I paid €30 for a bottle in the Dominican Republic last year, €10-15 is cheap in comparison!
@DaisyMay: If I wanted to end up like a lobster attracting flies I will! :-D
@Sam Harms: Big windows in that shop for tourists I’d say!
I thought the country was broke?
@The Bull McCabe: your about 7 years behind , nearly a full employment now.
SuperValu dying a slow death. No value= lower sales. They been slipping constantly on this market research but done nothing about it?
@Artur Gurta: not what i read recently. Ill try and find the article for you
How can four million people spend twenty seven pounds on groceries
@Peter Murphy: bags of ice probably account for 12 million
They normally wait outside the doors of these supermarkets to ask buyers for their receipts for to do the market research.
How can Supervalue sales only go up 0.1% and all others roughly 2.5 %?
@Kevin Cashin: because they’re expensive and they’re products have gone downhill
@Me_a_monkey: *their
No thanks to the propaganda spread by some media outlets.
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