Alberta Health Services (AHS) is notifying families whose children attend a Fort McMurray daycare that they may have been exposed to a case of tuberculosis (TB).
It is not an ongoing risk to the daycare staff or attendees, nor is it a risk to the general public, reports AHS. Only those notified by AHS are considered exposed to this case. An AHS statement says it is reporting the incident to the public as a matter of transparency.
‘Our TB Services and Communicable Disease Control Teams, together with our Medical Officer of Health and pediatric clinicians, are working collaboratively to complete the follow-up screening that is routine in response to any potential exposure to a case of active infectious TB,’ reads the statement.
AHS will not release the name of the impacted daycare, and all the staff and attendees are being notified.