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The titles of the policies adopted by the Rappahannock County School Board read “Blood Borne Contagious or Infectious Diseases” and “Communicable Diseases” but what everyone is really talking about is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
Evidence shows that AIDS is not spread through casual contact, but because the disease is invariably fatal, the enrollment in school of an infected youngster has, in other jurisdictions, sparked angry protests from parents who fear the virus will be passed to their children. And conversely, expulsion brings law suits from parents who want their children to live as normally as possible and who see the refusal of school admission as overreactive discrimination.
The five-county RappahannockRapidan Planning District has seven AIDS patients, according to the Rappahannock-Rapidan Health District office in Culpeper. Dr. John Einarson, director of the district office in Culpeper, declined to release figures by county, saying that the affected individuals would be too easy to identify. “The stigma is very.
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