Foreign
Desk
| April 11, 2003, Friday
Federal
Agency Issues Guidelines On Handling
Infected Students
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN (NYT) 479
words
Late Edition - Final , Section A ,
Page 10 , Column 1
ABSTRACT
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
issues first guidelines for school
administrators and health officials in
determining what to do if student has SARS,
mysterious respiratory disease; says
students who have been exposed to SARS but
do not have symptoms--fever, cough,
sneezing--should be allowed to attend
school, but should be vigilant for onset of
symptoms; CDC says that SARS has not so far
been transmitted from affected individuals
to other people through casual contact in
schools or public gatherings in US (M) The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
yesterday issued the first guidelines for
school administrators and health officials
in determining what to do if a student has
SARS, the mysterious respiratory disease.
Students who have been exposed to SARS and
who do not have fever, cough, sneezing or
other respiratory symptoms should be allowed
to attend school, but should be vigilant for
onset of symptoms of SARS, the federal
health agency said.
The reason for not excluding such
students from school is that, so far, SARS,
for severe acute respiratory syndrome, has
not been transmitted from affected
individuals to other people through casual
contact in schools or public gatherings in
the United States, the C.D.C. said.
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