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.)