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Updated: 8:14 a.m. Friday, May 16, 2014 | Posted: 5:23 p.m. Thursday, May 15, 2014
Feds scrambling to contain chickenpox at Georgia detention center
By Jeremy Redmon
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Federal health authorities are treating two detainees for chickenpox and have separated 10 others for monitoring at an immigration detention center in South Georgia, the government confirmed Thursday.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement identified one of the afflicted as an El Salvadorian citizen who picked up the disease before coming to the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin. He visited the medical clinic at Stewart days after he arrived, displaying symptoms.
Authorities isolated him and identified about 110 other detainees who were potentially exposed to the virus, ICE said in a prepared statement. Most were quickly cleared. None of the 10 who are still being monitored have shown symptoms...
Updated: 8:14 a.m. Friday, May 16, 2014 | Posted: 5:23 p.m. Thursday, May 15, 2014
Feds scrambling to contain chickenpox at Georgia detention center
By Jeremy Redmon
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Federal health authorities are treating two detainees for chickenpox and have separated 10 others for monitoring at an immigration detention center in South Georgia, the government confirmed Thursday.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement identified one of the afflicted as an El Salvadorian citizen who picked up the disease before coming to the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin. He visited the medical clinic at Stewart days after he arrived, displaying symptoms.
Authorities isolated him and identified about 110 other detainees who were potentially exposed to the virus, ICE said in a prepared statement. Most were quickly cleared. None of the 10 who are still being monitored have shown symptoms...