{"id":185787,"date":"2025-08-29T23:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T23:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/185787\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T23:13:08","slug":"2-klein-cain-high-school-students-diagnosed-with-active-tuberculosis-parents-notified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/185787\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Klein Cain High School students diagnosed with active tuberculosis, parents notified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> \u2013 Klein Cain High School has confirmed two cases of tuberculosis in a letter sent to the entire school community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Two siblings, who are students at Klein Cain High School, were diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) following testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">District officials said the students who were diagnosed with active tuberculosis are receiving medical care, are not on campus, and will not return until cleared by a physician or Harris County Public Health (HCPH), in accordance with state health regulations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Parents of students who shared a class with the affected students have been notified due to potential exposure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Officials emphasized that tuberculosis is not transmitted through casual contact, such as walking past someone in a hallway, and typically requires prolonged, close contact in an enclosed setting to be transmitted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">HCPH officials are conducting contact tracing to identify and notify anyone who may have had prolonged close contact with one of the students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Due to privacy laws, the district said it could not disclose any information that could potentially identify the students.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 Klein Cain High School has confirmed two cases of tuberculosis in a letter sent to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":185788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[210,104267,425,104268,74120,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-185787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-klein-cain-high-school","10":"tag-local","11":"tag-tb-exposure","12":"tag-tuberculosis","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115114593948668351","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}