Source:  Iowa Department of Public Health (1994).

CONCISE DESCRIPTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EXCLUSION OF CASES FROM SCHOOL

DISEASE * Immunization is available	Usual interval between exposure & first symtoms of disease	MAIN SYMTOMS	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 pock 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.
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 days (avg. 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 pus.	48 hours after antibiotic therapy started or until physician permits return.
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 (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 PE, swimming, 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 only 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 about 2 weeks.	5 days after starts of antibiotic treatment.

Readmission to school -- It is advisable that school authorities require written permission from the health officer, school physician or attending physician before any pupil is readmitted to class following any disease which requires exclusion, not mere absence, from school.

 

 

Approved: 8/14/95       
Reviewed:   11/15/21           
Revised:     11/11/13              

 

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
    Deficiency Syndrome                Leptospirosis                                                                measles)
    (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                                         Tuberculosis
Cholera                                                        disease and other                                Tularemia
Diphtheria                                                   complications)                                       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 Venereum
Histoplasmosis                                 Reye's Syndrome                                                     Syphilis    
Human Immunodeficiency             Rheumatic fever                                               Yellow fever          
    Virus (HIV) infection                    Rocky Mountain                                                 
    other than AIDS                                    spotted fever
Influenza                                              Rubella (congenital
Legionellosis                                            syndrome)                                                                       

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.

                                                                       

 

Approved: 8/14/95       
Reviewed:   11/15/21             
Revised:   11/11/13                

 

Source:  Iowa Department of Public Health (1994).

     REPORT THE FOLLOWING DISEASES IMMEDIATELY BY TELEPHONE (1-800-362-2736)

Botulism                                                      Poliomyelitis                Yellow Fever

Cholera                                                        Rabies(Human)          Disease outbreak of any public health concern

Diphtheria                                                    Rubella         

Plague                                                         Rubeola(Measles)         

 

REPORT ALL OTHER DISEASES BELOW                                           WEEK ENDING _____________

See other side for list of reportable infectious diseases.

DISEASE	PATIENT	COUNTY OR CITY	DOB	SEX
	Name                                            Parent(if applicable)
	Address
	Attending Physician
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	Attending Physician
	Name                                           Parent (if applicable)
	Address
	Attending Physician
	Name                                           Parent (if applicable)
	Address
	Attending Physician
	Name                                           Parent (if applicable)
	Address
	Attending Physician

Reporting Physician, Hospital, or Other Authorized Person.

 

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Address

 

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Remarks:

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FOR SCHOOLS ONLY:  Report over 10% absent only.  Total enrollment: ____________________
	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
No. Absent
% of Enrollment
REPORT NUMBER OF CASES ONLY           __________  Chickenpox                                              __________  Gastroenteritis           __________  Erythema infectiosum ( 5th disease)    __________  influenza-like illness (URI)

 

 

Approved    4/11/05                        
Reviewed  11/15/21                       
Revised  11/11/13