[PROVE] Evacuees Pose No Increased Risk for Texas Students

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[PROVE Note: As you may have seen in the news, the state of Texas is

waiving immunization requirements for children displaced by Hurricane

Katrina who will be attending school in Texas. Many of these children are

from very poor families without health care and immunizations. Louisiana

ranks near the bottom – yes – even lower than Texas – in the CDC’s

manipulative inaccurate annual immunization survey. We applaud the

governor and the state for taking these children in and recognizing that

the purpose of school is to educate and not letting the bureaucracy of

vaccine mandates that plagues healthy unvaccinated Texas children get in

the way of these kids attending school.

If there were ever a population of kids that would appear to be " at risk "

these kids would be it yet below is a press release from the Texas

Department of State Health Services clearly stating that " Evacuees Pose No

Increased Illness Risk for Texas Students. " You may want to file this away

for future reference when some doctor or public health person tries to tell

you your healthy undervaccinated child living in ideal circumstances with

good nutrition and other health care poses a risk to other students. You

can quote the commissioner of health when he says " Even if some weren't

vaccinated, the vaccines the Texas kids have received would protect them

against measles, mumps, chicken pox and other vaccine-preventable

illnesses, "

We've always said, if the vaccines work as well as they are advertised and

promoted to, the vaccinated should have nothing to fear from the

unvaccinated or undervaccinated. Unless of course they aren't as safe or

don't really work like parents are told...]

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From: DSHS Electronic News Service

[mailto:DSHSNEWS@...]On Behalf Of Doug McBride

Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 12:09 PM

DSHSNEWS@...

Subject: DSHS News Release: Evacuees Pose No Increased Risk for Texas Stu

dents

Texas Department of State Health Services

NEWS RELEASE

September 6, 2005

Evacuees Pose No Increased Illness Risk for Texas Students

Texas Commissioner of State Health Services , M.D., said

today that students displaced by Hurricane Katrina enrolling in Texas

schools pose no increased health risk to Texas students.

said some Texas parents have expressed concerns about health risks

to their own children from the incoming students' exposure to floodwater

and their vaccination status.

He called the concerns " understandable but unfounded. "

" Many of these kids were not exposed to floodwater, " said. " And

those who were exposed are being evaluated in the various shelters for

types of exposure and monitored for illness symptoms and are getting

treatment if they need it. Standard practice says any child, not just

evacuees, who's sick should not be sent to school. "

He also said routine in-school prevention measures such as frequent and

thorough hand washing with soap and warm water, especially after visits to

the restroom and before eating, should be practiced. " This is a critical

control measure that always should be followed, hurricane or not. "

said the primary illness threat from exposure to floodwater is

tetanus, which is not spread person-to-person. Other flood-related threats

are diarrheal illnesses such as shigellosis and salmonellosis. Symptoms of

the diarrheal illnesses usually occur within a few days of exposure.

None of the illnesses typically associated with floods is considered

airborne, he said.

In addressing concerns about vaccination status, said that

immunization requirements for school attendance in Mississippi, Alabama and

Louisiana are similar to those in Texas. " Just because they didn't escape

with their shot records, doesn't mean they haven't had their shots. If

they were in school in those states, chances are they are immunized, " he said.

" Even if some weren't vaccinated, the vaccines the Texas kids have received

would protect them against measles, mumps, chicken pox and other

vaccine-preventable illnesses, " added. He also noted that there

were no pre-hurricane reports of unusual numbers of these illnesses in the

areas hit by Katrina. " In this situation, with no increased occurrence in

those states, there's no increased risk here. "

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(News media: for more information contact Doug McBride, DSHS Press

Officer, Austin, 512-458-7524.)

NOTE: The Texas Department of Health (TDH) has merged with other agencies

and is now part of the new Department of State Health Services (DSHS),

resulting in the following e-mail address format change for all employees:

firstname.lastname@....

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