WEST VIRGINIA: Buffalo students clean own school after Staph outbreak - (WOWK TV)
October 22, 2007 – 6:36 pmBUFFALO — Students at one Putnam County high school walked out of school Monday morning and then came back to school after hours — to clean.
One student was cited as telling 13 News Monday morning about 100 students refused to enter Buffalo High School after several confirmed cases of staph infection, including rumors that one student willfully contaminated areas in the building.
Senior Priscilla Blankenship was quoted as saying, “It irritates me, and I’m outraged that I am a high school student. I come here to learn and I have to come and clean my own school to come into it — to make it safe enough.”
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