Shiloh
Editor, Senior Moderator
Source: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/money/...cond-school-delray-elementary-has-735078.html
Tuberculosis hits a second school - Delray elementary has regular TB, Seminole Ridge facing rare multidrug-resistant strain
By Stacey Singer
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Updated: 6:46 p.m. Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Posted: 6:24 p.m. Tuesday, June 8, 2010
LOXAHATCHEE ? A second Palm Beach County school is in the midst of a tuberculosis investigation, health officials acknowledged Tuesday, as they finished TB skin testing of some 200 students and faculty at Seminole Ridge High School in Loxahatchee.
The second case, based at Orchard View Elementary School in Delray Beach, involved fewer contacts and a different strain of TB, said Palm Beach County Health Department Spokesman Tim O'Connor.
Letters went out to the elementary school student's classmates and teachers on May 18, and skin tests were conducted immediately after, O'Connor said. In all, 96 people at Orchard View received the skin test...
Tuberculosis hits a second school - Delray elementary has regular TB, Seminole Ridge facing rare multidrug-resistant strain
By Stacey Singer
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Updated: 6:46 p.m. Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Posted: 6:24 p.m. Tuesday, June 8, 2010
LOXAHATCHEE ? A second Palm Beach County school is in the midst of a tuberculosis investigation, health officials acknowledged Tuesday, as they finished TB skin testing of some 200 students and faculty at Seminole Ridge High School in Loxahatchee.
The second case, based at Orchard View Elementary School in Delray Beach, involved fewer contacts and a different strain of TB, said Palm Beach County Health Department Spokesman Tim O'Connor.
Letters went out to the elementary school student's classmates and teachers on May 18, and skin tests were conducted immediately after, O'Connor said. In all, 96 people at Orchard View received the skin test...