Chicken Pox Outbreak Puts Another Spotlight On Vaccination Debate
More than 90 students who were believed to be unvaccinated were sent home for three weeks by public health officials.
Ventura County Star:
Agoura Hills Chickenpox Scare Shows Vaccine Fear
Kindergartner Cozette DesRoches ... can't go [to school] because of four cases of chickenpox at 400-student Mariposa School of Global Education in Agoura Hills in an outbreak that has made headlines and spawned debate over vaccination compliance. Los Angeles County Department of Public Health officials mandated earlier this month that more than 90 students believed to be unvaccinated against the disease, including Cozette, be sent home for three weeks to keep the illness from growing. The number of students still away from school had fallen to 68 as of Friday. (Kisken, 5/12)
In other news from across the state —
San Jose Mercury News:
Comprehensive Sex-Ed Curriculum Coming To Santa Clara County Schools
In classrooms, district offices and school board rooms around the county, the conversation lately has pivoted to one subject: sex. ... At the center of the controversy is Health Connected, a Redwood City nonprofit that several districts in the region have contracted to teach a sex education program called Teen Talk. The program was updated following passage of the California Healthy Youth Act, which went into effect in January 2016 and requires school districts to provide comprehensive sexual health education and HIV prevention education once in middle school and once in high school. (Sarwari and Myllenbeck, 5/12)
Orange County Register:
Foothill Ranch Pool And Spa Closed After Two Diagnosed With Legionnaires’ Disease
The community pool and spa at Foothill Ranch was closed Friday, May 12 after two cases of Legionnaires’ disease were reported in the last two months, community officials said. The illness, also known as legionellosis, is an infection with symptoms of serious pneumonia and can be deadly if not treated. (Fausto, 5/13)