{"id":86971,"date":"2026-03-27T07:47:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86971"},"modified":"2026-03-27T07:47:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:47:41","slug":"usathousands-exposed-to-deadly-lung-disease-after-student-tests-positive-for-tuberculosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/27\/usathousands-exposed-to-deadly-lung-disease-after-student-tests-positive-for-tuberculosis\/","title":{"rendered":"USA:Thousands exposed to deadly lung disease after student tests positive for tuberculosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1ZuTJw.img?w=534&amp;h=307&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Officials at Grissom High School (pictured above) in Huntsville, Alabama, announced a student has tested positive for tuberculosis\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of high school students in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/alabama\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Alabama<\/a> may have been exposed to the world&#8217;s deadliest disease, health officials warn.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/health-news\/thousands-exposed-to-deadly-lung-disease-after-student-tests-positive-for-tuberculosis\/ar-AA1Zui4m?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69c632b7f1a846b3a0e80bfeab001a97&amp;ei=17\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Hundreds of high school students in\u00a0Alabama may have been exposed to the world&#8217;s deadliest disease, health officials warn.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TB.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86972,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86971\/revisions\/86972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}