30.aug.06
Charleston Gazette (WV)
As a result of potential exposure by an infected staff member in one classroom, children and staff of the Kanawha County Schools Head Start Program, located at the Martin Luther King Center in Charleston, will be offered preventive treatment for hepatitis A.
Nurses from the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department will be on hand beginning 9 a.m. today to discuss the treatment with caregivers and to administer injections of hepatitis A immune globulin. No children or other staff members have reported being ill.
For more information, consult the Health Department’s Web site at www.kchdwv.com or call 348-1088.