Posted By Bill Elliott
Zoe
A question best asked of your local CCDC, Consultant in Communicable Disease Control - get in touch either through your local EHO or Acute Health Trust Microbiologist. Regards

Posted By Allan St.John Holt
I've just run this past the Royal Mail Chief Medic, who says:

The information is held in the Public Health Lab and also by HSE under RIDDOR.

But the key point is that people who feel they may be at risk should consult with their GP, and if they need it they will get a free vaccination.

If the occupation is low risk in respect to B and C, which schools are, the case doesn't arise. Anyway, it's an individual thing and not a school policy that's involved here. The pupils are very unlikely to be at special risk.

Hope this helps.

Allan

Posted By Paul Bellis
I wouldnt have thought there was a need to cary out a vaccination programme at a school, as Allan says it is low risk in this area, unless it is a special school with disabled children and where you have biters, scratchers etc and staff are therefore at risk through contact with blood products etc. In which case then it would bring the risk into a higher category and when you should then offer vaccinations. The problem is with the GP route - although free in most cases, there is lack of control, you dont know who has been , if the vaccination has taken, if follow ups are needed and chasing up on renewals etc. There is also a small risk from the innoculation itself. I would recomment this is co-ordinated via the occupational health unit if you have accesss to it.