SIXTY pupils at a Banbury primary school are being offered blood tests after a member of staff was diagnosed with potentially infectious tuberculosis.
The pupils, aged three to five, at St Leonard's Primary School, in Overthorpe Road, may have been exposed at the end of last year.
Parents have received letters advising them that their children can be screened for the disease which affects the lungs, by the Health Protection Agency's Thames Valley Health Protection Unit, in partnership with the school and Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust.
Parents are also being advised that the children may be offered further follow-up blood tests after the initial screening.
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