Patients' families: Scabies outbreak at nursing home A Harrisburg nursing home has requested visitors not visit because of a contagious disease. Channel 9 went by the Oaks at Town Center on Roberta Road and saw a sign warning visitors not to come in. It said the facility is under quarantine because of a “highly contagious infection.” Family members of two patients told Channel 9 the infection is scabies. Channel 9 went inside the nursing home and ...
June 14, 2013 - WSOC-TV Charlotte
Lynn TB spike triples health OT budget LYNN — Locally documented tuberculosis cases spiked to 14 locally and then dropped off recently to nine cases — but not before tripling the city overtime costs associated with monitoring people who contract the contagious disease.
June 11, 2013 - The Daily Item