Posted on 07/01/2017 6:12:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Solano County Public Health is looking for members of the 24-Hour Fitness gym in Vallejo who may have been exposed to tuberculosis
Patrons at 24-Hour Fitness gym in Vallejo are on edge after a member tested positive for tuberculosis.
Solano Public Health Officials notified the club on June 16 that a member was infected with the disease.
A club spokesperson refused to answer why it took two weeks to notify other members.
On Friday, county health officials reached out to anyone who was in the club at the same time as the infected patron.
"Everyone checks in so that's how we know who was in the club while he was there," said Dr. Michael Stacey with the Solano County Health Department.
Members said they have never been concerned about potentially contracting anything at the club before.
"I'm not really personally worried," Vallejo-resident Steve Freund said. "You have to be close to get it. But still, this happens."
The Vallejo gym is located on Sonoma Boulevard.
I’d love to hear more about the vector.
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Chances are good that no one will acquire it,but they should be tested.
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JUNE 16
TB is another disease that found it’s way across the border.
Vallejo is close to Mare Island, a Navy base where there are TONS of Phillipino people.
The Phillipines is a TB hotspot.
COULD be Mexicans but...that’s actually not my first guess, in this particular case.
I’ve tested positive for TB for decades.
To my knowledge I’ve never had it.
It probably means you received the TB vaccine somewhere in Asia:
It gives total protection however, yeah, with the old test it claims you’re poz.
The new QuantiFeron-GOLD test will not be fooled, however.
Submitting to THAT test will prevent you having to show people that stupid chest X-ray.
LOL! Ya, right. Like that's gonna happen.
“A club spokesperson refused to answer why it took two weeks to notify other members.”
Infected is of a protected sexual identity group.
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