The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, May 03, 1995, Image 4

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Today
Partly cloudy with isolated afternoon
showers. High near 83. South winds
near 10 m.p.h.
Thursday
Isolated early morning showers becoming
partly cloudy and warm. High near 85.
South winds 10-15 m.p.h.
Friday
Partly cloudy with scattered showers and
thunderstorms. High near 87.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy with late night drizzle and
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy with a low near 66.
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Amarillo school
report five cases
of active TB
AMARILLO, Texas (AP)
Five children at two Amarl
elementary schools, four att
school alone, have been di;
nosed with active tuberculos
public health officii
said Tuesday.
The Amarillo public schot
tuberculosis control progn
found four children with act
TB at Will Rogers Element!
in northeast Amarillo duri:
an annual spring screeniti
said Dr. Rush Pierce, a tuts
culosis specialist at Nortte
Texas Health Systems,
Amarillo hospital.
Another child with active"
was found during screening
Glenwood Elementary Schi
in southeast Amarillo, hesaic
“These kids are all back
school now. There probably«:
n’t any reason to keep th
home except to keep on thee
servative side of things," st ! .
Karr Ingham, an Amarillof.
lie schools spokesman.
“They were out about tt:
days. I don’t think they miss
a step,’’ he said.
Pierce said other childrer
the schools are in no dange:
contracting tuberculosis ft
the infected children.
Of 1,173 students tested
showed they had been expoi
to tuberculosis. Follow-upexi
inations and chest X-rayst
tected active TB in the fivect
dren, said Anne Denison, a
berculosis nurse at Nortb
Texas Health Systems, the k-
pital conducting the tests.
“On Wednesday, we’llii
the rest of the student body,:
ulty and staff at Will Roge:
Pierce said.
The school district has an
rollment of about 30,000.
eluding 500 at Will Rogers;
350 at Glenwood, Ingham sa
“Even with active cases, d ||
dren do not transmit tuberc. f
sis the way adults do. The;
not contagious,” he said. |
when we see TB in a child, 1
know they’ve been recently
fected by an adult. We usu; -
find the case in the household
Pierce said most of the inft
ed children already havebt ,
started on preventative anti
otic therapy in their \qKs
School nurses will monitc
five children to ensure they:
their medication, he said.
Also, their househc
friends and other poss:
sources have agreed tc
checked for TB to learn
source of the contagion, hes
All are cooperating, he said.
There had been no case
tuberculosis found among (
dren in Amarillo schools
1994, Ms. Denison said.
“We did change our sere
ing program to be directed
ward English-as-a-secondl
guage students,” Pierce ss
“Those are primarily studs
from immigrant families,
figured that would target h
risk populations.”
However, such a strati
might offend targeted groups ■
some cities, said Isabel Vit
nurse consultant for the St
Bureau of Communicable 5
ease Control.
“We recommend screening '
school-age children, but 1 *
don’t require it,” she said.
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