exposure prompts notifications to 600 valley residents
September 9, 2008


Today, Barbara Cole, director of disease control with the county health department, confirmed that about 600 notifications were mailed out to Coachella Valley residents Aug. 12 following reports of a tuberculosis exposure.


Cole declined to specify where the exposure may have occurred.

So far, however, spokespersons for Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs and John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Indio have said there has been no cases of tuberculosis at their facilities or have had any patients come in for testing because of the notification.

Read more on mydesert.com as details become available.

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