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  • OK, I’M A STATIST

    Filed at 7:48 am under by dcobranchi

    I’m with the schools in this case. A TB test is not a vaccination.

    5 Responses to “OK, I’M A STATIST”


    Comment by
    Nance Confer
    October 14th, 2006
    at 9:22 am

    When she goes on her trip around the world, won’t she be required to get some immunizations?

    Or can she take an exemption then too?

    Just wondering. . .

    Nance


    Comment by
    COD
    October 14th, 2006
    at 9:30 am

    The mysterious and ever elusive 11th Commandment, Thou Shall Not Be Tested for Communicable Diseases.


    Comment by
    Liz
    October 14th, 2006
    at 9:38 am

    You do get stuck with an antigen in a TB test, so it’s kind of like a vaccination. Maybe this person can go directly to the chest X-ray, which is what you’d get if the screening test proved positive.


    Comment by
    madhatter
    October 14th, 2006
    at 9:45 am

    Sure she can refuse to be tested, and they can refuse to let her attend public schools. Just like I can refuse to take a driving test and the state can refuse to allow me to drive. Of course, if there is a TB outbreak in her community, all bets are off.

    I find it amusing that being tested for a disease is somehow contrary to Judeo-Christian beliefs. The Bible is full of specific steps to test for communicable diseases. And if you’ve got one, you got booted out of camp.


    Comment by
    Laura
    October 14th, 2006
    at 4:55 pm

    They’re objecting to foreign substances known to cause a certain number of severe and less severe reactions being injected into the body. Though it is rare, some people do react very badly to the TB skin test – I’m one of them, and the reaction I had put me in the hospital for a week, with lingering symptoms for several months.

    The sad thing is, there are now sputum tests and blood tests for TB that are better than the skin test. They have been approved by the FDA, but the state of Hawaii won’t accept them because they haven’t changed their state’s administrative rules to allow for that in lieu of the skin test.