Via BBC, excerpt :
" Dozens of students and staff at a college in North Lincolnshire have been offered medical tests after a case of tuberculosis (TB) was diagnosed.
The group at John Leggott College in Scunthorpe includes about 90 students and staff who had the closest contact with the person who had the illness.
Disease control experts said the risk was considered "low" and antibiotics could be used to treat the condition.
An outbreak of tuberculosis was reported at the college in June 2009.
Dr Terry Matthews, consultant in communicable disease control for North Yorkshire and the Humber Health Protection Unit, said: "Following discussion with TB experts and with the full support of the college, around 90 students and staff members will be offered a precautionary test.
"Tuberculosis is usually caught from someone who has infectious TB when that person coughs or sneezes.
"Close and prolonged contact with the infectious individual is usually needed to be at risk of being infected."
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