Public Health/California

Two California School Districts Require Kindergarten TB Tests

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, March 27th, 1995

Ocean View and Huntington Beach City school districts in Southern California's Orange County have adopted policies to require tuberculosis testing for kindergartners.

Officials for both elementary school districts said the stiffer policy is necessary to prevent the spread of the communicable disease in schools. So far, there have been no cases of TB in either district, officials said.

The county requires tuberculosis skin testing for all students entering Orange County schools in second through 12th grades. The state requires testing for first-graders.

The school board of the Huntington Beach City School District gave...

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