Barnet Hospital has recorded no new cases of tuberculosis after testing 36 patients it feared may have contracted the disease during their stay.
The hospital was concerned as many as 43 patients were in danger of contracting the disease after coming into contact with multiple sclerosis sufferer Colin Francis. Mr Francis, 50, said he caught TB from another patient who ignored nurses' pleas to remain in his room.
This week a spokesman for Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust said: "Initially all the tests we have had back from all of the people concerned have been negative. We have had no new cases of this drug-resistant TB in Barnet."
He added: "We will be calling some of the people back over the next two or three months as a precautionary measure because some of them were older people and some had low immune systems."
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