Pardon Our Progress

The Student Health Center is Under Construction from July 19 - August 19, 2017

Not a summer student but need an appointment?

If you were enrolled in spring classes and will enroll in fall, you may pay a one-time medical service fee to receive services from both the Student Counseling Center and the Student Health Center during the summer.

T SPOT (TB Screening) Blood Test

Beginning August 1, 2017 the new T SPOT Blood Test price will be $75.00.

Due to unforeseen circumstances we are experiencing a delay in receiving test results electronically. As a result many of the TB screenings that were done as early as August 1st, 4th, 7th, and 8th the results have not been received. We are working very diligently with the lab to retrieve these results and get them entered. What is normally an electronic process now has to be done manually. We are receiving results but they are not being received in the order of the actual TB screening test date, we are getting them in random order. I appreciate your patience with this matter and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. We will be working with the Bursars’ office to ensure that you will not be charged a late registration fee. Please continue to watch your Galaxy account to see if your hold has been removed. Again we will be posting results manually as we receive them. We have over 1,000 results to post, again thanks for your patience while we work through this issue.

Mumps Health Advisory

Twenty three students and staff at a high school in Dallas County have been diagnosed with mumps within the past 3 weeks, with an additional 9 cases under investigation. All of the students diagnosed with mumps infections have had documentation of two prior doses of mumps-containing vaccine. Dallas County Health and Human Services is recommending that all students and staff at the school receive an additional third booster dose of MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine. more

Flu

The flu season has arrived in the North Texas area, with a large number of cases throughout the state.

The UT Dallas Student Health Center no longer has flu vaccines. If you have not already been vaccinated, we encourage you to check with local pharmacies or your primary care physician to get the flu vaccine. You may also visit flushot.healthmap.org/ to find locations near you that may still be offering the vaccine.

You should seek medical attention and isolate yourself from others immediately if you think you may have the flu. The Student Health Center can diagnose and treat students who show symptoms of the flu.

Here are some simple ways to fight the flu, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC):

• Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it. If a tissue is not available, use your arm to cover a cough or sneeze.
• Wash your hands often with soap and water. If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth.
• Try to avoid close contact with sick people.

If you are sick with flu-like illness (headache, body ache, cough, fatigue, fever), the CDC recommends that you stay home for at least 24 hours after your fever is gone, except to get medical care or for other necessities. Students are urged to have a temperature below 100 for 24 hours without the use of fever reducing medication before returning to class.

For the most up-to-date information about prevention and spread of the flu, visit www.flu.gov.

Thank you,

Mosquito Viruses