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this kindergarten, children were tested for tuberculosis at a daycare center in Anyang, Gyeonggi-do. The director was first diagnosed with tuberculosis, and then the four natives who attended were also judged positive for latent tuberculosis. Authorities are investigating the possibility of infection in a small, confined space.

Reporter Jeong Ban-seok.

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daycare center operating on the first floor of an apartment in Anyang, Gyeonggi-do.

On the 10th, 4 days after the director received a tuberculosis test, 4 people, including 18 infants under 24 months of age, were positive for latent tuberculosis.

Although latent tuberculosis has been exposed to tuberculosis bacteria, it does not cause symptoms, so it can develop into tuberculosis, so you need to receive medication for the next 9 months.

In the past, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that about 150,000 of the 1 million people working in group facilities such as kindergartens were positive for latent tuberculosis. The problem is that it is easy to spread through cough in a small, confined space.

Parents of preschool children are reported to have troubled the response of the daycare center, saying that the director went to work for more than a month even though he was diagnosed with suspected tuberculosis on the 7th of last month.

[Anyang City Hall officials. I doubt that talking in the hospital, if the Giant recognize this continuing work'm also out administrative measures]

side Ledger went on the day immediately Seoul Hospital received a suspected diagnosis problems receiving tuberculosis voice determination, etc. sputum test He explained to the health authorities that he knew there was no such thing.

(Video coverage: Park Hyun-cheol, Video editing: Hojin Kim)