A high school student in the Fox Valley is being treated for tuberculosis.
The student is no longer attending Xavier High School in Appleton as they are being treated for the disease.
Health officials say the disease is quite rare in the United States and hard to catch.
"Well, I think the risk to the community is very low. What we’re doing is an overabundance of caution, because of the close air space the student had with other students and faculty,” says Kurt Eggebrecht, the Health Officer with the Appleton Health Department. “We're going to be screening a limited number of people at that school. And again, that's an overabundance of caution to make sure that no one else might have gotten infected."
According to the CDC, about 3 in 100,000 people will become infected with tuberculosis.
