TB tests come back negative

College administrators are not often pleased when more than 100 people fail a test. But that might well be the case today on the heels of news released Wednesday that more than 100 tuberculosis tests conducted on campus personnel last week proved negative.

In a campus-wide e-mail sent Wednesday, CSC President, Dr. Janie Park,  said “health officials report no indication of the spread of tuberculosis” after testing more than 100 people who had prolonged contact with a male student who was diagnosed in January with active tuberculosis.

That student, whose identity has been kept confidential, remains hospitalized, but is expected to fully recover.

Contact representative from PPHD, Becky Corman, said that while the test results did not show any sign of the active infection spreading, the male student who was infected remains in the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery.