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Local Health Directo
Outbreak Of T.B. In 1
The local Health Director, Dr. L. O. Fears, Jr., and the Tuberculosis and Health Association . q| Northern ^'Virginia Issued thefollowlng state ment this week on the recent outbreak of tuberculosis in a Detroit nursery school: “The Detroit tuberculosis epidemic in which a reported 14 out of 57 pre-school children contracted TB from direct exposure to one unknown active case emphasizes the problems inherent in dealing with this disease.* The first problem is the contagious nature of the disease itself. Tuberculosis is passed from an infectious person to his associates through the mouth and nose. A cough, a sneeze - or eVen a song may spread the germs from this individual. The TB germ is a hearty one. It can live outside the body, in the air, for several days. Once inhaled, it can live inside the body for years - often a lifetime. It may remain inactive and walled off in a tiny lump in the body (called a “tubercle*). Only when a person's resistance, is lowered will it activate, or break through the wall and cause illness. Putting this in terms of the Detroit epidemic, although 14 children have contracted tuberculosis already, additional youngsters no doubt, have live TB germs in their bodies, inhaled from their teacher contact. Although not sick now, they may develop tuberculosis some time later in life. The obvious question is, “Why do these epidemics occur in a disease which most people feel is all but eradi
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