{"id":6110,"date":"2012-10-23T11:57:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T16:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=6110"},"modified":"2012-10-24T14:53:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T19:53:03","slug":"cluster-o-t-b-cases-in-grand-forks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=6110","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cluster&#8221;  T.B. Cases in Grand Forks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/APred.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-646\" title=\"APred\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/APred-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) &#8211; State and local health officials are investigating what they call a cluster of tuberculosis cases in Grand Forks County.<br \/>\nThe state Health Department has confirmed three cases of active TB in the county &#8211; a man in his 20s and two men in their 40s.<br \/>\nOfficials are working to identify people the men might have exposed<br \/>\nto the contagious bacterial infection that usually attacks the<br \/>\nlungs.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Health Department TB specialist Dee Pritschet says TB cases are<br \/>\nnot common in North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>There were eight confirmed cases last year, 11 in 2010, five in 2009 and three in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The three cases in Grand Forks bring this year&#8217;s total to 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) &#8211; State and local health officials are investigating what they call a cluster of tuberculosis cases in Grand Forks County. The state Health Department has confirmed three cases of active TB in the county &#8211; a man in his 20s and two men in their 40s. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6110"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6188,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6110\/revisions\/6188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}