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Two Tuberculosis Cases Confirmed in Segovia, One Fatality

The response will test local surveillance capacity to detect transmission from an airborne disease.

Overview

  • Two workers at a Segovia farm tested positive for tuberculosis; one has died and the other is hospitalized and receiving treatment.
  • The regional health authority activated its epidemiological surveillance protocol and is testing about 88 contacts to find any further infections.
  • Completed tests to date have not identified new cases and officials say the two patients are not epidemiologically linked, so they do not classify this as a workplace outbreak.
  • Health authorities reminded the public that tuberculosis spreads through airborne droplets from people with active disease and that casual outdoor contact carries low risk.
  • Castilla y León has a low TB incidence (158 cases in 2025) and investigators say the study must be completed before drawing final conclusions about chains of transmission.