measles? probably not. confusion about test results
this from the Thursday 10/11 Detroit News:
ANN ARBOR -- What started as a scare over a suspected elementary school measles outbreak has become a mystery Thursday when officials discovered an error with the test that supposedly confirmed the virus in an Ann Arbor school girl.
"We now know this is not what we were told it was. It is not measles," said Michigan Department of Health spokesman T.J. Bucholz.. "But we still don't know what it is. It could be a rash or something else."
A mix-up at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta apparently resulted in officials in Michigan getting erroneous confirmation of measles. Bucholz said there was an apparent "transcription error" involving a real measles case in Texas.
The investigation into just what has afflicted nine elementary and preschool-age children will continue, said Bucholz, but authorities believe whatever it is, it's probably not life threatening.
Waiting for confirmation from the school system, county health department etc. about this.
Technorati Tags: measles, cdc, not-the-measles
Turns out one of the other cases in Angell elementary is measles. 4 more cases are being evaluated.
Posted by: Jonathan Greenberg | October 12, 2007 at 11:24 AM
Dead link, but scraped by the internet archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050322084649/http://faculty.econ.nwu.edu/faculty/witte/B01/handouts/sweeneys.html
Posted by: John Hritz | November 03, 2007 at 11:09 PM