COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CHART

CONCISE DESCRIPTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EXCLUSION OF CASES FROM SCHOOL

 

DISEASE *Immunization is available	Usual Interval Between Exposure and First Symptoms of Disease	MAIN SYMPTOMS	Minimum Exclusion From School
CHICKENPOX*	13 to 17 days	Mild symptoms and fever.  Pocks are "blistery."  Develop scabs, most on covered parts of body.	7 days from onset of pocks or until pocks become dry
CONJUNCTIVITIS (PINK EYE)	24 to 72 hours	Tearing, redness and puffy lids, eye discharge.	Until treatment begins or physician approves readmission.
COVID-19	5-6 days, but can be asymptomatic and contagious for up to 14 days	Typical symptoms include fever, cough, and shortness of breath. Atypical symptoms include chills, malaise, sore throat, increased confusion, rhinorrhea or nasal congestion, myalgia, dizziness, headache, nausea, and diarrhea.	14 days following exposure or and at least 3 days (72 hours) after recovery.
ERYTHEMIA INFECTIOSUM (5TH DISEASE)	4 to 20 days	Usual age 5 to 14 years – unusual in adults.  Brief prodrome of low-grade fever followed by Erythemia (slapped cheek) appearance on cheeks, lace-like rash on extremities lasting a few days to 3 weeks.  Rash seems to recur.	After diagnosis no exclusion from school.
GERMAN MEASLES* (RUBELLA)	14 to 23 days	Usually mild.  Enlarged glands in neck and behind ears.  Brief red rash.	7 days from onset of rash.  Keep away from pregnant women.
HAEMOPHILUS MENINGITIS	2 to 4 days	Fever, vomiting, lethargy, stiff neck and back.	Until physician permits return.
HEPATITIS A	Variable – 15 to 50 (average 28 to 30 days)	Abdominal pain, nausea, usually fever.  Skin and eyes may or may not turn yellow.	14 days from onset of clinical disease and at least 7 days from onset of jaundice.
IMPETIGO	1 to 3 days	Inflamed sores, with puss.	48 hours after antibiotic therapy started or until physician permits retune.
MEASLES*	10 days to fever, 14 days to rash	Begins with fever, conjunctivitis, runny nose, cough, then blotchy red rash.	4 days from onset of rash.
MENINGOCOCCAL MENINGITIS	2 to 10 days (commonly 3 to 4 days	Headache, nausea, stiff neck, fever.	Until physician permits return.
MUMPS*	12 to 25 (commonly 18) days	Fever, swelling and tenderness of glands at angle of jaw.	9 days after onset of swollen glands or until swelling disappears.
PEDICULOSIS (HEAD/BODY LICE)	7 days for eggs to hatch	Lice and nits (eggs) in hair.	24 hours after adequate treatment to kill lice and nits.
RINGWORM OF SCALP	10 to 14 days	Scaly patch, usually ring shaped, on scalp.	No exclusion from school.  Exclude from gymnasium, swimming pools, contact sports.
SCABIES	2 to 6 weeks initial exposure; 1 to 4 days reexposure	Tiny burrows in skin caused by mites.	Until 24 hours after treatment.
SCARLET FEVER SCARLATINA STREP THROAT	1 to 3 days	Sudden onset, vomiting, sore throat, fever, later fine rash (not on face).  Rash usually with first infection.	24 hours after antibiotics started and no fever.
WHOOPING COUGH* (PERTUSSIS)	7 to 10 days	Head cold, slight fever, cough, characteristic whoop after 2 weeks.	5 days after start of antibiotic treatment.

REPORTABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES

While the school district is not responsible for reporting, the following infectious diseases are required to be reported to the state and local public health offices:

Acquired Immune                            Leprosy                                           Rubella (German measles)

Deficiency Syndrome                       Leptospirosis                                    

  (AIDS)                                           Lyme disease                                  Rubeola (measles)

Amebiasis                                       Malaria                                            Salmonellosis

Anthrax                                           Meningitis                                        Shigellosis

Botulism                                         (bacterial or viral)                               Tetanus

Brucellosis                                      Mumps                                            Toxic Shock Syndrome

Campylobacteriosis                         Parvovirus B 19                                 Trichinosis

Chlamydia trachomatis                     infection (fifth disease and                 Tuberculosis

Cholera                                                 other complications)                    Tularemia

COVID-19

Diphtheria                                                                                              Typhoid fever

E. Coli 0157:h7                                Pertussis                                         Typhus fever

Encephalitis                                    (whooping cough)                              Venereal disease

Giardiasis                                       Plague                                              Chancroid

Hepatitis, viral                                 Poliomyelitis                                      Gonorrhea

(A,B, Non A-                                  Psittacosis                                         Granuloma Inguinale

Non-B, Unspecified)                        Rabies                                               Lymphogranuloma

Histoplasmosis                               Reye's Syndrome                               Venereum

Human Immunodeficiency                Rheumatic fever                               Syphilis

Virus (HIV) infection                         Rocky Mountain                             Yellow fever

other than AIDS                              spotted fever

Influenza                                        Rubella (congenital syndrome)

Legionellosis                                         

Any other disease which is unusual in incidence, occurs in unusual numbers of circumstances, or appears to be of public health concern, e.g., epidemic diarrhea, food or waterborne outbreaks, acute respiratory illness.