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Article: Whooping cough case suspected at Frolio
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- June 6, 2003
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The Patriot Ledger
A student at Abington's Frolio Junior High School may have
whooping cough.
The student was diagnosed by a local physician Wednesday,
Principal Peter Schaeffer said. A commercial lab confirmed the
diagnosis.
But the case has yet to be confirmed by a state lab, said Susan
Lett, medical director of the state Department of Public Health's
immunization program.
Nonetheless, Schaeffer sent a warning letter from the state health
department home with the school's 405 students Wednesday.
It told parents that their children may have been exposed to a
child with whooping cough.
The letter, a standard response detailed in the school's
protocols, advised parents to have their children ...