| DISEASES | Symptoms | Method Transmission | Communicable Period | Controls |
| Chicken Pox | Skin rash blisters, scabs | Direct Contact with drainage, airborne droplets | 1-2 days prior to rash appearing through 6 days after sores appear | Exclude until 6 days after onset of rash and sores are dry |
| Flu | Abrupt onset of chills, fever, headaches, sore muscles, runny nose, sore throat, cough are common | Direct contact with infected person or indirect contact from soiled items with nose and throat discharge from infected person, airborne in crowded areas | 1 day before symptoms, up to 5 days after symptoms begin- may be up to 10 days in younger children | Exclusion from school based on child's symptoms i.e fever |
| Strep Throat | Red throat with pus spots, fever, tender, swollen lymph nodes | Direct contact with secretions from infected person or large droplets, or indirect contact with objects contaminated by infected person | Until 24 hours antibiotics completed | Early diagnosis and treatment is essential in preventing complications |
| Impetigo/MRSA | Blister like pus filled bumps progress yellow crusted sores | Direct contact with sores or indirect contact with items soiled by drainage from sores | 2 to 10 days (sometimes longer), as long as drainage is present | Exclude until no drainage present and after 24 hours of treatment |
| Mono | Fever, sore throat, swollen lymph nodes (glands), fatigue, headache, spider veins roof mouth, | Direct contact saliva of infected person | Unknown | Need not exclude under ordinary circumstances |
| Ringworm | Scaly bald patches on scalp or flat ring like rash to skin | Direct contact with infected area or items that have come into contact with skin infections | As long as lesions are present | Exclude until 24 hours treatment given |
| Scabies | Linear burrows in skin, often found between fingers, inside wrists, elbow, armpits, genital area, intense itching at night | Direct skin to skin contact. Pets do not transmit the mite. | From infestation prior to rash until treatment, | Exclude until 24 hours after treatment, wash and dry clothing, bedding, personal articles. Treat others who have been in contact. |
| Head Lice | Itchy scalp, feeling something move through hair, white to yellow brown nits attached to hair | Direct hair to hair contact or indirect contact with infested persons combs, hats, or bedding | As long as infested person is infested, live aff hair 24 to 48 hours. Eggs live off host 7 to 10 days | Exclude until pediculocide treatment is given. |
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