The outbreak was at Crown Hills Community College Friends and relatives of children infected with tuberculosis at a Leicestershire school are to be screened for the disease. Leicestershire Health Authority Seventeen of the cases, mostly pupils, have been diagnosed since Monday.
Experts say the disease is now probably gaining a hold in the wider community.
People most at risk are those who have come into contact with the infected pupils. Another 60 students strongly suspected of having been infected have been given antibiotics as a precautionary measure. But at the moment, the advice we are being given is that it isn't necessary. He said only one of the people affected had reached the infectious stage of the disease. At this stage, I feel that we are in control of the situation in the school.