At 4 she died of tuberculosis

Massive screening campaign at the Vildé-Guingalan nursery school. This exceptional operation was carried out as a preventive measure after the death of one of the small pupils, a 4-year-old girl, following an infection with the bacillus of the tuberculosis, reports Ouest-France. She died at the end of last week at the Southern Hospital of Rennes. Originally from the town of Vildé-Guingalan near Dinan (Côtes d’Armor), the little one was taken to hospital after having developed this disease, whose deaths associated with this infectionremain rare in France.

A screening X-ray to be renewed in 3 months

As a preventive measure, all the pupils of the nursery school as well as the educational staff and the entourage of the girl underwent a screening test for tuberculosis. The pupils of the two kindergarten classes of the school will have to take a pulmonary x-ray, to be renewed in three months. “This protocol is offered to all people who have had a cumulative contact time of 8 hours during the last three months”, explains a doctor from the ARS quoted by West France.

Tuberculosis is a disease caused by a bacillus (mycobacterium of the tuberculosis complex) which most often affects the lungs (pulmonary tuberculosis) but which can affect other organs (extrapulmonary tuberculosis). In 2014, the number of tuberculosis casesdeclared continues to decline, with an incidence that remains low in France: 4,827 cases observed, i.e. 7.3 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (source: National Institute for Health Surveillance).