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State Health Officials Investigating Potential TB Cases

The state health department is investigating two additional potential cases of tuberculosis in Clark County.

Those two people have shown symptoms of the disease after coming into contact with a student at Rock Creek Community Academy in Sellersburg who has a confirmed case of tuberculosis.

A final diagnosis for those two has not yet been confirmed by lab tests.

More than 50 other people in Clark and Floyd counties have tested positive for the bacteria in skin tests, but they have not yet shown symptoms of the illness.

Officials are still awaiting the results of 300 TB tests performed earlier this week.

Jake Harper contributed to this report.

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