Originally published in The Palm Beach Post on Sunday, May 25, 2008. By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN Palm Beach Post Staff Writer LANTANA – Before the court order that separated Bert Sayre from his family and forced him into isolation, he had no idea what was making him so sick. And at first, neither did the doctors. [...]

Originally published in The Palm Beach Post on Thursday, May 8, 2008. By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN Palm Beach Post Staff Writer LANTANA – Discussions about privatizing the state’s tuberculosis treatment program started weeks before lawmakers changed the state budget to make it mandatory. Two potential suitors say they received calls from Gov. Charlie Crist’s economic development [...]

Originally published in The Palm Beach Post on Tuesday, April 22, 2008. By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN Palm Beach Post Staff Writer LANTANA – More people will become sick and die from tuberculosis if lawmakers close A.G. Holley State Hospital without an effective plan to treat difficult patients, county health department directors from around Florida warn. Leaders [...]

Originally published in The Palm Beach Post on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008. By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN Palm Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH – More than one in 10 people who drank city water when it was contaminated with fecal bacteria said they got sick, according to a survey of residents released by the Palm [...]

Originally published in The Palm Beach Post on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2007. By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Palm Beach County emergency managers hope they have found a new group of foot soldiers in the war against bioterrorism: country clubs and condo board presidents. Faced with a mandate to plan for the distribution [...]