Pennsylvania Code › Title 28 - HEALTH AND SAFETY › Part III - Prevention of Diseases › Chapter 27 - COMMUNICABLE AND NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter C - QUARANTINE AND ISOLATION › COMMUNICABLE DISEASES IN CHILDREN AND STAFF ATTENDING SCHOOLS AND CHILD CARE GROUP SETTINGS › Section 27.71 - Exclusion of children, and staff having contact with children, for specified diseases and infectious conditions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
A person in charge of a public, private, parochial,
						Sunday or other school or college shall exclude from school a child, or a staff
						person, including a volunteer, who has contact with children, who is suspected
						by a physician or the school nurse of having any of the communicable diseases,
						infections or conditions. Readmission shall be contingent upon the school nurse
						or, in the absence of the school nurse, a physician, verifying that the
						criteria for readmission have been satisfied. The diseases, the periods of
						exclusion and the criteria for readmission are as follows:
(1)
Diphtheria.
Two weeks
					 from the onset or until appropriate negative culture tests.
(2)
Measles.
Four days from
					 the onset of rash. Exclusion may also be ordered by the Department as specified
					 in §
											27.160 (relating to special
					 requirements for measles).
(3)
Mumps.
Nine days from the onset or until subsidence of
					 swelling.
(4)
Pertussis.
Three weeks from the onset or 5 days from
					 institution of appropriate antimicrobial therapy.
(5)
Rubella.
Four days from
					 the onset of rash.
(6)
Chickenpox.
Five days from the appearance of the first crop of
					 vesicles, or when all the lesions have dried and crusted, whichever is
					 sooner.
(7)
Respiratory
					 streptococcal infections including scarlet fever.
At least 10 days
					 from the onset if no physician is in attendance or 24 hours after institution
					 of appropriate antimicrobial therapy.
(8)
Infectious conjunctivitis (pink
					 eye).
Until judged not infective; that is, without a
					 discharge.
(9)
Ringworm.
The person shall be allowed to return to school,
					 child care or other group setting immediately after the first treatment, if
					 body lesions are covered. Neither scalp nor body lesions that are dried need to
					 be covered.
(10)
Impetigo
					 contagiosa.
Twenty-four hours after the institution of appropriate
					 treatment.
(11)
Pediculosis
					 capitis.
The person shall be allowed to return to either the school,
					 child care or other group setting immediately after first treatment. The person
					 shall be reexamined for infestation by the school nurse, or other health care
					 practitioner, 7 days posttreatment.
(12)
Pediculosis corpora.
After completion of appropriate treatment.
(13)
Scabies.
After
					 completion of appropriate treatment.
(14)
Trachoma.
Twenty-four
					 hours after institution of appropriate treatment.
(15)
Tuberculosis.
Following
					 a minimum of 2 weeks adequate chemotherapy and three consecutive negative
					 morning sputum smears, if obtainable. In addition, a note from the attending
					 physician that the person is noncommunicable shall be submitted prior to
					 readmission.
(16)
Neisseria
					 meningitidis.
Until judged noninfective after a course of rifampin or
					 other drug which is effective against the nasopharyngeal carriage state of this
					 disease, or until otherwise shown to be noninfective.
This section cited in 28 Pa. Code §
													27.76 (relating to exclusion and
						  readmission of children, and staff having contact with children, in child care
						  group settings).