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Re: Advice please: Helper with Herpes

Post by American » Mon, 13 Jul 2015 1:02 am

I for one would not employ someone in my household with any kind of reoccurring, transmittable disease especially around young children and relatives with weak immune systems - why risk it?

Then again, I'm a very paranoid person. I have our helper get checked up every 6 months just to be safe.

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Re: RE: Re: Advice please: Helper with Herpes

Post by ecureilx » Mon, 13 Jul 2015 9:03 am

American wrote: Then again, I'm a very paranoid person. I have our helper get checked up every 6 months just to be safe.
For curiosity sake, what does the check cover? :roll:

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Re: Advice please: Helper with Herpes

Post by American » Mon, 13 Jul 2015 4:42 pm

Actually it's mandated by MoM. FDW 6me. At a minimum it is urine (pregnancy I believe) and blood (TB I think and std's). You can do more like x-rays but I think the causes for immediate repatriation are TB and AIDS. Not sure if genital herpes would be grounds for repatriation and contract termination. It's probably one the MoM site somewhere.

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Re: Advice please: Helper with Herpes

Post by rajagainstthemachine » Mon, 13 Jul 2015 5:57 pm

American wrote:I for one would not employ someone in my household with any kind of reoccurring, transmittable disease especially around young children and relatives with weak immune systems - why risk it?

Then again, I'm a very paranoid person. I have our helper get checked up every 6 months just to be safe.
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