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Updated: 8:22 PM Dec 2, 2009
73% of Arnold High Students Need TB Tests
Bay County Health Department officials will be administering tuberculosis tests at a local school this week.
Posted: 6:38 PM Dec 2, 2009Email Address: news@wjhg.com |
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Last month, the Health Department learned a person associated with Arnold High School in Panama City Beach was infected with tuberculosis. That person is no longer on campus.
Officials sent home questionnaires to determine who could have come into contact with this person. Based on those results, they recommend 73%, or 1,100 people, need to take the T.B. test.
That's a mix of students, staff and faculty. Health Department nurses will be on campus Friday to administer the skin tests; they will be back Monday to read the tests and distribute the H1N1 vaccine to those with permission slips.
Due to the bacteria's incubation period, Health Department officials will re-administer T.B. tests in January.
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Posted by: Sue
Location: PCBeach
on Dec 3, 2009 at 10:41 AM
HIPAA= Health Insurance Accountability & Portability Act. Disclosing Protected Health Information to Relatives, Friends, or Others without the person's permission is illegal.
Posted by: Steve
Location: PC
on Dec 2, 2009 at 09:19 PM
I find it interesting how these stories refer to this 'person'. It is a staff member or student? Illegal alien student, perhaps? There is more to this than just protecting their identity.
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