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Updated at 3:54 p.m., Tuesday, February 26, 2008

No one's tested positive at school for tuberculosis

Advertiser Staff

No positive results have been found thus far among the students and adults

tested for tuberculosis last week at Kahuku High & Intermediate School, the

state Department of Health said today.

However, about 20 to 30 screenings have yet to be completed of the 107

people tested.

More than 100 students and adults at the school had been exposed to the

disease by a teacher who was unaware of being infected until visiting a

doctor for an unrelated problem.

The test on all of the exposed people should be done by Friday and a final

report is expected in March, the Health Department said.