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  • B.C., Canada: Scarlet fever case at Salmon Arm elementary school

    Source: http://www.saobserver.net/news/137196843.html

    Scarlet fever reported at city school
    By Barb Brouwer - Salmon Arm Observer
    Published: January 13, 2012 11:00 AM

    Don't share saliva.

    That's the main advice in preventing strep throat, says Dr. Karen Goodison, a public health and preventive health resident currently working with Interior Health in their communicable disease unit in Vernon.

    A family physician now certifying in communicable diseases, Goodison was responding to a single case of scarlet fever reported at Bastion Elementary School.

    Goodison says IH is not worried about the case of scarlet fever, described as strep throat with a rash on the BC Health Newslink website...
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