TB tests at Stark school: Students, teachers, staff at Jackson Middle School to be screened after 1 pupil diagnosed with disease.

Byline: Bob Downing

Oct. 17--The Stark County Health Department will conduct tuberculosis skin tests today at Jackson Middle School after it was confirmed last week that one student has the disease. About 1,200 students and perhaps 200 teachers and staff at the school will be tested, Stark County Health Commissioner William Franks said Monday. The Health Department will return on Thursday to analyze the test results, he said. Health officials do not expect to find any other cases at the middle school in the Jackson Local School District and no other schools are to be tested, he said. A boy at the middle school was confirmed as having the disease on Friday. …