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Menifee pupil tests positive for active tuberculosis
Families of about 500 Heritage High students are being notified they may have been exposed and should be tested.
By MICHAEL J. WILLIAMS / STAFF WRITER
Published: Dec. 14, 2016 Updated: 1:33 p.m.
A pupil at Heritage High School in Menifee has been diagnosed with active tuberculosis, spurring Riverside County health officials to notify about 500 students and their families that they may have been exposed to the disease.
The county public health department plans to set up a clinic at the school in Menifee?s Romoland community in January to offer tuberculosis skin tests to those notified, officials said in a release Wednesday, Dec. 14.
Menifee pupil tests positive for active tuberculosis
Families of about 500 Heritage High students are being notified they may have been exposed and should be tested.
By MICHAEL J. WILLIAMS / STAFF WRITER
Published: Dec. 14, 2016 Updated: 1:33 p.m.
A pupil at Heritage High School in Menifee has been diagnosed with active tuberculosis, spurring Riverside County health officials to notify about 500 students and their families that they may have been exposed to the disease.
The county public health department plans to set up a clinic at the school in Menifee?s Romoland community in January to offer tuberculosis skin tests to those notified, officials said in a release Wednesday, Dec. 14.