Students in Lilburn to Get TB Tests

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School officials in Gwinnett County Schools want more than 300 Lilburn Middle School students to be screened for tuberculosis after two sixth graders tested positive for the disease.

The public health department will offer the screenings Friday on campus. It will be the second round of testing at the school.

The first round of testing was performed in February after a student tested positive. A second student who was part of the initial test group also tested positive. Suleima Salgado, spokeswoman for the East Metro Health District, says that student had non-infectious TB.

About 313 students and 45 staff members have been invited to be screened on Friday.

AP