The Public Health Services also discovered that this student attended Cerritos College in Norwalk, CA from the summer of 1999 to February 2000. After a routine investigation, the Department of Public Health Services sent approximately 300 letters to students, faculty, and counselors at the Norwalk campus who may have had significant contact with the infected student. As a precautionary measure, those receiving the letter were advised to have a Tuberculosis screening exam as soon as possible. Any of the Public Health Offices in Southern California and the Cerritos College Student Health and Wellness Center can provide free TB screening to those presenting the letter sent from the Department of Public Health Services. Not everyone exposed to TB will become infected and not everyone who becomes infected will develop active TB disease.
Tuberculosis is preventable, and can be cured when proper diagnosis and treatment are rendered.
On the agenda is a change order for the refurbishments being done to the Student Activities area. Superintendent Peter Hardash explained that the bathrooms were not part of the initial bid. Peter went on to say it is important that the bathrooms are renovated properly and that is why the change order has been submitted. He also reported that the Student Activities refurbishments would be completed by August 14 for the start of the semester. There were no reports.