VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – The BC Centre for Disease Control is trying to track down some Greyhound bus passengers who were travelling from Vancouver to Kelowna in mid-October. There is a very slim chance they may have been exposed to tuberculosis.
“Most people on the bus would have posed a very small risk, but everyone gets tuberculosis from someone else, so the risk is there. Obviously, the closer the person was to the person with tuberculosis, the bigger the risk,” explains Dr. Kevin Elwood.
“You’d have to be pretty unlucky to get tuberculosis from this exposure, but [the risk] is not zero,” he notes, adding there is no health risk to the genearl population.
The person who originally had the disease is being treated in hospital.
The bus in question travelled from Vancouver to Kelowna on October 11th; it also made stops in Coquitlam, Langley, the Fraser Valley, Merritt and Westbank.
“Unfortunately, Greyhound doesn’t have a passenger list,” Elwood tells us. “So… for us to contact people, the only way to do it is to alert through the media.”
If you believe you were on this bus, you can call HealthLink BC at 8-1-1.
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Risk of TB for people who took bus to Kelowna last month
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