Working Group on New TB Drugs

Over the last month, a few reports about new positive TB cases have surfaced from FL, involving a couple high schools and a college. Information was not made available as to how the original infected TB individuals contracted TB. Furthermore, it is not clear whether any of the newly identified TB positive individuals have developed active TB or latent TB (LTBI) since the diagnoses used the skin test, which only reveals exposure to TB.

Even LTBI treatment raises questions, however, particularly if it were to spread quickly through a close-knit population such as a high school.