--- title: Tuberculosis: 27 People at Kansas High School Test Positive description: More than 300 students and staff were tested for TB at the school canonical: https://time.com/3749219/27-people-kansas-high-school-test-positive-tuberculosis/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-18T16:53:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-15T05:29:09.000Z article:section: Health og:title: 27 People at Kansas High School Test Positive for Tuberculosis og:description: More than 300 students and staff were tested for TB at the school og:url: https://time.com/3749219/27-people-kansas-high-school-test-positive-tuberculosis/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 27 People at Kansas High School Test Positive for Tuberculosis twitter:description: More than 300 students and staff were tested for TB at the school twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 27 People at Kansas High School Test Positive for Tuberculosis > Sponsored content. 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After about 300 students and staff at the school were tested, 27 of them, or 8%, were found to be infected with TB, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The large number of instances of TB comes less than two weeks after [one student at the school](http://www.kshb.com/news/health/somebody-at-olathe-northwest-hs-is-diagnosed-with-tuberculosis-school-writes-in-note) tested positive for the illness. “The number of individuals with TB infection does not exceed what we would anticipate in this setting,” said Lougene Marsh, director of the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment. “Of course, we had hoped we wouldn’t find any additional TB cases, but we knew this was a possibility.” None of the individuals who tested positive are showing symptoms of TB, meaning they do not have the disease, Marsh said. They are undergoing treatment to ensure their infections do not become sick. 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