Supervisor
Karen Bates RN, MS 
kbates@pgcps.org

Patricia Washington-Admin Staff
patricia2.washington@pgcps.org
Suite I

Oxon Hill Staff Development Center
7711 Livingston Road
Oxon Hill, Maryland 20745
301-749-4722
fax 301-749-4721

Communicable Diseases

A communicable disease is an illness caused by infectious agents or toxins transmitted from an infected person, animal, or object to another susceptible person. Transmission can be person to person or through the environment.

(The information below serves as a basic guide for school health about communicable disease(s).  It is not intended as a diagnositic guide.  Consultation with a health care provider and/or the local health department may be necessary.)