In Lithuania the teacher infected img src with tuberculosis of the pupils. Incident happened in the Lithuanian city of Skuodas: after test Manta whom made to 568 pupils of one of schools, the management of educational institution sounded the alarm — more than 13% of results were positive. At elementary school 4 pupils, in average — 73 caught.
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according to the vice-minister of science and education of Lithuania Natalya Istomina, the situation arose because of negligent attitude of the teacher to the health. It is known that the teacher long time coughed, but for medical care did not ask. At the beginning of academic year when two schoolgirls got to hospital with the diagnosis the "tuberculosis", all staff of educational institution was directed on a X-ray of lungs. The teacher who has infected pupils, was immediately hospitalized. Medical workers established p to
that changes in lungs happened for a long time, and the teacher knew about it. Besides, earlier, as the director of the Klaipeda center of public health Rimantas-Joonas Pilipavichyus noted, one more of teachers of this school was sent to hospital with the diagnosis "an open form of tuberculosis". The mayor Pyatras Pushinskas reported that the personnel of school and members of families of pupils were surveyed, finance is allocated for carrying out disinfection of educational institution.