Overview

• The Alabama Department of Public Health confirmed a tuberculosis diagnosis in a Jasper High School student.
• Jasper City Schools reported that identified close contacts are no longer at risk of exposure.
• Letters and permission slips went home Friday to potential contacts, with free testing to be conducted by the state health department in October.
• The campus has been sanitized with deep cleaning underway, and classes and activities will continue as normal.
• Public health officials describe TB as an airborne, treatable disease, and Alabama recorded 65 cases in 2022 according to CDC data.