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Skin infections
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in Days
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in Days
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Chicken Pox
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14-16 days
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2 days before rash until all sores have crusts
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Fifth Disease (Erythema Infectiosum)
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10-14 days
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7 days before rash until rash begins
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Hand Foot and Mouth Disease
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3-6 days
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Onset of mouth ulcers until fever gone
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Impetigo
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2-5 days
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Onset of sores until 24 hours on antibiotic
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Lice
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7 days
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Onset of itch until one treatment
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Measles
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10-12 days
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4 days before rash until rash gone (7 days)
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Roseola
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10-15 days
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Onset of fever until rash gone (2 days)
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Rubella (German Measles)
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14-21 days
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7 days before rash until rash gone (4 days)
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Scabies
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30 days
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Onset of rash until 1 treatment
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Scarlet fever
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3-6 days
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Onset of fever or rash until 24 hours on antibiotics
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Shingles-contagious for Chicken pox
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14-16 days
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Onset of rash until all sores are crusted (7 days)
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Warts
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30-180 days
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minimally contagious
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Respiratory infections
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Bronchiolitis
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4-6 days
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Onset of cough until 7 days
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Colds
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2-5 days
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Onset of runny nose until fever gone
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Cold sores (herpes)
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2-12 days
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<6 years-stay home until sores are dry (5 days)
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Coughs (viral)
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2-5 days
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Onset of cough until fever gone
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Croup (viral)
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2-6 days
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Onset of cough until fever gone
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Diphtheria
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2-5 days
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Onset of sore throat until 4 days on antibiotics
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Influenza
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1-2 days
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Onset of cough until fever gone
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Strep Sore throat
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2-5 days
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Onset of spre throat until 24 hours on antibiotics
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Viral sore throat
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2-5 days
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Onset of sore throat until fever gone
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Tuberculosis
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14-70 days
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Until 2 weeks on drugs(most childhood TB is not contagious
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Whooping cough
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7-10 days
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Onset of runny nose until 5 days on antibiotics
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Intestinal Infections
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Diarrheal, bacterial
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1-5 days
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<6 yrs. Stay home, > 6 yrs return if BM control and no fever
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Diarrhea, giardia
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7-21 days
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same
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Diarrhea, Traveler's
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1-6 days
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same
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Diarrhea, viral (Rotavirus)
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1-3 days
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same
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Hepatitis A
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14-50 days
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2 weeks before jaundice begins until jaundice resolves
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Hepatitis B
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50-180 days
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Pinworms
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21-28 days
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minimally infectious
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Vomiting, viral
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2-5 days
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Until vomiting stops
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Other Infections
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Infectious mononucleosis
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30-50 days
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Onset of fever until fever gone (7 days)
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Meningitis, bacterial
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2-10 days
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7 days before symptoms until 24 hours of IV antibiotics
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Mumps
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16-18 days
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5 days before swelling until swelling gone (7 days)
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Conjunctivitis, viral
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1-5 days
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Until redness resolves
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Conjunctivitis, bacterial
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2-7 days
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Onset of discharge from eye until 1 day of antibiotics
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