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COLUMBIA ? In what is expected to be a tense hearing, state senators plan to question South Carolina?s top health official Thursday about why she didn?t act sooner to speed up an infectious disease investigation near Greenwood and how the slow-moving probe affected young schoolchildren.
Catherine Templeton, director at the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control, faces intense questioning during the hearing in Columbia, where upset senators say they want answers about tuberculosis that infected more than 50 children at Ninety Six Primary School.
DHEC?s performance in Greenwood County also is expected to raise broader questions about its general preparedness to handle a health crisis following events this week in Columbia...
Templeton admits some top DHEC officials knew of TB problem in April
Published: August 8, 2013 Updated 2 hours ago
By SAMMY FRETWELL ? sfretwell@thestate.com
COLUMBIA, SC ? State health department director Catherine Templeton spent more than three hours explaining Thursday why her agency botched a tuberculosis investigation near Greenwood, where more than 50 school children were infected with the germ.
But her answers didn't appear to satisfy Democratic state senators. Under their questioning, Templeton indicated that she did not learn about the TB probe until May 21. She later clarified that to say she did not know there were problems with the investigation until she visited a DHEC clinic in Greenwood on that day in May...
DHEC Board, Senator Joel Lourie speak out on Director's handling on tuberculosis outbreak
by WACH Fox News Center
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WACH) ? The South Carolina Board of Health and Environmental Control supports agency Director Catherine Templeton following the investigation of how a tuberculosis outbreak was handled at a school. The board stated that they ?unanimously support and commend the director for her transparent and professional handling of the agency response to the tuberculosis outbreak in Ninety Six, South Carolina...
CDC blames man?s death on TB outbreak at Upstate elementary school
Associated Press
Posted: Friday, August 16, 2013 7:40 a.m.
GREENWOOD, S.C. -- Federal health officials say the death of a 79-year-old man earlier this year is linked to the outbreak of tuberculosis at a Greenwood County school.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say a 79-year-old man died in March at a Georgia hospital and an autopsy determined he had tuberculosis.
Health officials say the victim sang in a band with a janitor who is suspected of spreading the disease around Ninety-Six Primary School...
TB did not kill SC man, health agency says
Published: August 17, 2013 Updated 11 hours ago
By Sammy Fretwell ? sfretwell@thestate.com
COLUMBIA ? The state health department said Friday that a 79-year-old singer from the Greenwood area who died this year was not killed by tuberculosis, even though a federal report says the man had been in contact with an infectious carrier of the disease and was later found to have tuberculosis in his body.
In a news release Friday afternoon, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control said, ?The individual did not die of TB. In fact, tuberculosis wasn?t even the secondary cause of death.? An agency spokesman later said in an email that a death certificate does not list TB as the reason the man died...
Senators seek answers from DHEC in man's TB death
Aug. 28, 2013 |
Written by
Sammy Fretwell
THE STATE
Two state senators are asking why South Carolina's health department denied that tuberculosis killed a Greenwood County singer when federal documents show the infectious disease was found in his body and his death was identified as lung failure ``secondary to TB.''
Sens. Joel Lourie and Brad Hutto wrote a letter Tuesday to Catherine Templeton, the state health department's chief, seeking clarification about the man's death in April in a Greenwood County hospital. The man had been a longtime friend of a school janitor suspected of spreading tuberculosis to schoolchildren and others in the Ninety Six community...
1/1/2014 10:07:00 AM
TB outbreak shocks Ninety Six
An outbreak of tuberculosis at Ninety Six Primary School sent shockwaves throughout the Town of Ninety Six and the entire state. A number of stories were written on the issue as new developments occurred almost daily, which is why it finds itself as the no. 2 story of the 2013...
Email records reveal truth behind Greenwood County TB outbreak
By Gordon Dill, Independent Mail news coverage partner WSPA News Channel 7
Posted January 9, 2014 at 8:17 a.m.
COLUMBIA ? Using the Freedom of Information Act, WSPA News Channel 7 combed through more than 5,000 emails from staff at the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control starting with the first ones sent after learning of a patient with tuberculosis in Greenwood County until parents at Ninety Six Primary School were notified of the outbreak...
