Nurse killed by Victorian disease 'should have been warned months earlier'

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

A nurse who died of tuberculosis after being exposed to the Victorian disease while volunteering on an NHS ward should have been warned of the exposure months earlier, a coroner has ruled in a damning report.

Carrianne Franks, 30, found out less than 24 hours before she died that she had contracted TB. The day before her death she sent a worried text to her parents after she was finally diagnosed to say: "Mum, they found out what I have.

I've got TB." Her family were unable to say goodbye as she was quickly placed in a coma in intensive care, where she died. Her devastated parents Chris and Bev Franks are now calling on more to be done to protect the people who are caring for others throughout the country's hospitals, the Mirror reports.

RAF sergeant Carrianne had worked as a flight nurse for 10 years and was on a three-year deployment at London's Chelsea and Westminster Hospital when the Covid pandemic hit. READ MORE: Taxi driver hands over keys at knifepoint after suspect in stolen car causes massive smash READ MORE: True crime series to explore brutal murder of young Manchester couple It was here in November 2020 that she worked on the same ward as a patient with TB.