Doctors monitor Katrina shelters for disease
12/09/2005 - 10:38:18US doctors, working for the federal government and the state of Louisiana, are carefully monitoring people in dozens of shelters state-wide for outbreaks of serious and infectious diseases.
Short-term, doctors are watching for signs of viral diseases that could be linked to exposure to the nasty black water in New Orleans.
Long term, Commander Fransisco Averhoff of the US Public Health Service says they’re looking for the slow and silent killers, such as tuberculosis.
Averhoff says some small clusters of viral illnesses have been spotted. He says the people who are sick are whisked away to hospitals for treatment.
A big concern is having sick people in a shelter where they are living in close quarters.
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