Post by sevenofnine on Sept 7, 2016 19:21:17 GMT -5
They not sure yet they testing the kids out right now
JURUPA VALLEY (CNS) - Fears that two students in the Jurupa Valley Unified School District may be afflicted with leprosy prompted parents to keep their children out of school today, as the Riverside County Department of Public Health conducts an investigation.
"The diagnoses have not been confirmed. We're still waiting for the physicians to make a diagnosis," JVUSD District Superintendent Elliott Duchon told City News Service.
Duchon said he received word Friday that parents of the two students, whose identities were not disclosed, spoke with staff at Indian Hills Elementary School, saying that doctors had determined the youths were infected with leprosy.
"We disinfected two or three classrooms as a precaution. It probably wasn't necessary, but we did it anyway," the superintendent said.
The district distributed notices Friday alerting parents and guardians that two students had possibly been infected with leprosy.
"I personally wasn't concerned, especially after reading that this is not a highly contagious disease," Duchon said. "We hav
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