DIRECT CONTACT COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

DIRECT CONTACT COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

po8453Adopted July 1, 2023

8453 - DIRECT CONTACT COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

The Board seeks to provide a safe educational environment for students and staff. To this end, students and staff should understand the method of transmission and prevention of diseases that are contracted through direct contact with body fluids and excretions, especially blood, vomit, feces, or urine. The Board is also committed to assuring, to the extent permitted by State communicable disease reporting requirements, the confidential status of individuals who may have been diagnosed with a contact communicable disease.

For purposes of this policy, these diseases shall include:

  1. HIV (human immunodeficiency virus);

  2. AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome);

  3. AIDS related complex (condition);

  4. HAV, HBV, HCV (Hepatitis A, B, C);

  5. other diseases that may be specified by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) as contact communicable diseases.

The Board recognizes that individuals who have contracted these diseases may not exhibit symptoms for many years after exposure and may, in fact, not be aware that they have contracted the disease. They are, however, able to transmit the disease to other individuals.

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