The original headline for this story was CO woman dies of TB, when you read further you see that she is not a native of Colorado she is from Nepal.
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UPDATE! TB death: Woman could have had disease more than four months
June 11, 2007 - 1:29PM
A college student who died of tuberculosis Friday at Memorial Hospital could have had the contagious form of the disease for up to four months, but health authorities say the public health risk is low.

Kalpana Dangol, 19, arrived at the hospital about 12:30 a.m. Friday. She later died of complications related to tuberculosis.

Dangol took spring courses at Colorado State University at Pueblo but lived in Colorado Springs, health authorities said at a news conference Monday.

Deaths from TB in Colorado are rare, health officials said.

The El Paso County Coroner’s Office identified Dangol on Monday afternoon, and listed her cause of death as sepsis, a poisoning from the spread of bacteria. TB invaded other parts of her body, including her colon, which became eroded and perforated.

The perforation of her colon caused bacteria to move into her bloodstream, Dr. Robert Bux said.

Health and CSU officials refused to identify the woman during the earlier news conference, citing state privacy law. Chief Medical Officer Ned Calonge, of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, said he was confident health authorities could investigate who may have been exposed without notifying the general public.

He and other health officials did not know how many people might need tests.

Calonge said Dangol, of Nepal, likely contracted the disease from her native country, where TB is endemic, but did not travel during the time period where she could have been contagious.

He said she probably did not have the rare multidrug-resistant or extensively drug resistant strains of TB. Those forms of TB have a higher mortality rate, said Jim Hunger, assistant to the director for San Francisco Department of Health’s TB Control Center.

TB, which is spread by air, is usually contracted through prolonged exposures and in poorly ventilated areas. Most people exposed to it do not become infected.

“It is not easy to catch tuberculosis,â€