Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 19 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SENIOR SERVICES › Division 20 - Division of Community and Public Health › Chapter 20 - Communicable Diseases › Section 19 CSR 20-20.030 - Exclusion From School and Readmission

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule requires the exclusion of persons
				  from school who have a reportable disease or who are liable to transmit a
				  reportable disease. The methods of readmission to school are also
				  established.
(1) Persons
				suffering from a reportable disease or who are liable to transmit a reportable
				disease listed in
				19
				CSR 20-20.020(1)-(3) shall be barred
				from attending school.
(2) Any
				person excluded from school under section (1) of this rule may be readmitted to
				school by one (1) of the following methods:
(A) Certification in writing by an attending
				physician attesting to the person's noninfec-tiousness;
(B) After a period of time equal to the
				longest period of communicability of the disease as established in the 1990
				fifteenth edition of the
Control of Communicable Diseases in
				Man
published by the American Public Health Association; the 1991
				twenty-second edition of the
Report of the Committee on Infectious
				Diseases
published by the American Academy of Pediatrics; or the
				following recommendations of the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee
				published by the Centers for Disease Control in the
Morbidity and
				Mortality Weekly Report: General Recommendations on Immunization
,
				April 7, 1989;
Update on Adult Immunization
, November 15,
				1991;
New Recommended Schedule for Active Immunization of Normal
				Infants and Children
, September 19, 1986;
Pertussis
				Vaccination: Acellular Pertussis Vaccine for Reinforcing and Booster
				Use-Supplementary ACIP Statement
, February 7, 1992;
Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis: Recommendations for Vaccine Use and
				Other Preventive Measures
, August 8, 1991;
Haemophilusb
				Conjugate Vaccines for Prevention of Haemophilus influenza Type b Disease Among
				Infants and Children Two Months of Age and Older
, January 11 , 1991;
Immunization of Children Infected With Human Immunodeficiency
				Virus-Supplementary ACIP Statement
, April 1, 1988;
Immunization of Children Infected with Human T-Lympho tropic Virus Type
				III/Lymphadenopathy-Associated Virus
, September 26, 1986;
Prevention and Control of Influenza
, May 15, 1992;
Measles Prevention: Recommendations of the Immunization Practices
				Advisory Committee (ACIP)
, December 29, 1989;
Meningococcal
				Vaccines
, May 10, 1985;
Mumps Prevention
, June 9,
				1989;
Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine
, February 10, 1989;
Poliomyelitis Prevention: Enhanced-Potency Inactivated Poliomyelitis
				Vaccine Supplementary- Statement
, December 11 , 1987;
Poliomyelitis Prevention
, January 29, 1982;
Rabies
				Prevention
, March 22, 1991;
Rubella Prevention
,
				November 23, 1990;
Varicella-Zoster Immune Globulin for the Prevention
				of Chick-enpox
, February 24, 1984;
Hepatitis B Virus: A
				Comprehensive Strategy for Eliminating Transmission in the United States
				Through Universal Childhood Vaccination
, November 22, 1991;
Plague Vaccine,
June 11 , 1982
; Typhoid
				Immunization
, July 13, 1990;
Typhus Vaccine
, June 2,
				1978; and
Yellow Fever Vaccine
, May 4, 1990; or
(C) When the local health authority declares
				that the designated health emergency is ended, after consultation and
				concurrence of the director of the Department of Health or his/her designated
				representative.