Disease
|
Period of Incubation
|
Isolation for Patient
|
Quarantine for Contacts
|
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Chicken pox
(varicella)
|
From 10 to 21 days;
usually 14 days
|
Until 7 days after appearance of rash
|
No restrictions
|
German measles
(rubella)
|
From 12 to 21 days;
usually about 10 days
|
None
|
No restrictions
|
Measles
(rubeola)
|
From 8 to 14 days;
usually about 10 days
|
As soon as fever and catarrhal symptoms of the
eyes, nose and throat are detected and until 7 days after appearance
of rash
|
Household contacts under 18 years who have not
had measles shall be quarantined for 14 days after exposure
|
Mumps
|
From 12 to 21 days; usually about 18 days
|
Until 7 days after onset and until all swelling
of the salivary glands has subsided
|
No restrictions
|
Pertussis
(whooping cough)
|
From 7 to 14 days
|
3 weeks or until characteristic cough disappears
|
Household contacts under 18 years who have not
had pertussis shall be quarantined for 14 days
|
Diphtheria
(membranous croup)
|
Usually 2 to 5 days ,occasionally longer
|
Until 2 successive cultures from the nose and
2 from the throat taken not less than 24 hours apart beginning at
least 7 days after cessation of drug therapy, if used, are found to
be free from virulent diphtheria bacilli by a laboratory approved
by the State Department of Health for such examination
|
24 hours after satisfactory isolation of patient
has been established, contacts may when 1 culture from the nose and
another from the throat are found to be free from virulent diphtheria
bacilli by a laboratory approved by the State Department of Health
for such examination, If satisfactory isolation of patient has not
been established, members of household shall be quarantined until
the period of isolation of the last case in the household has been
terminated and the release culture standards described above have
been met
|
Meningitis,
epidemic cerebrospinal (meningococcal meningitis)
|
Generally 2 to 10 days; usually 7 days
|
Until 7 days after onset or for the duration
of fever, if longer
|
Household contacts under 18 years shall be quarantined
for 7 days
|
Poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis)
|
Considered to be from 5 to about 14 days
|
For 7 days after onset or for the duration of
fever, if longer
|
Intimate home contacts under the age of 18 years
shall be quarantined for 14 days
|
Scarlet fever
(including streptococcal sore throat)
|
From 2 to 7 days; usually 3 to 5 days
|
In uncomplicated cases, until clinical recovery
or not less than 7 days. Patients with complications resulting in
purulent discharges shall be isolated as long as discharges persist
|
Home contacts under the age of 18 years shall
be quarantined for 7 days
|
Smallpox
|
From 10 to 20 days; usually 12 to 14 days
|
Until 14 days after onset of illness and until
all lesions are healed
|
Home contacts and other persons exposed to the
risk of contracting smallpox by proximity to a case or suspected case
of the disease shall be vaccinated and quarantined until vaccination
is successful or until evidence of protection is established to the
satisfaction of the local Health Officer. Persons released from quarantine
shall be kept under observation for not less than 21 days from the
date of last exposure. Contacts who refuse to be vaccinated shall
be quarantined for at least 16 days from the date of last exposure
and until discharged by the local Health Officer
|
Typhoid fever paratyphoid fever A and B
|
Typhoid - from 3 to 38 days; usually 10 to 14
days
Paratyphoid - from 4 to 10 days; usually about
7 days
|
Until clinical recovery and until 3 successive,
authentic, fresh specimens of feces and urine taken at intervals of
not less than 7 days, beginning at least 7 days after termination
of specific drug therapy, have been reported negative for Salmonella
typhosa by a laboratory approved by the State Department of Health
for such examination. Recovered cases shall submit, commencing 90
days after discharge from isolation, at least, authentic, fresh stool
specimens in this period are positive for Salmonella typhosa, the
individual shall come under the regulations governing carriers
|
Family contacts need not be quarantined unless
employed as food handlers. Family contacts who are food handlers shall
not be employed as such during period of contact and until 2 cultures
of authentic, fresh specimens of feces and urine collected not less
than 24 hours apart have been reported negative for Salmonella typhosa
by a laboratory approved by the State Department of Health for such
examination
|
Amebiasis
|
Anthrax
|
BOTULISM
|
Brucellosis
|
CEREBRAL PALSY
|
Chicken pox
|
Cholera
|
Dengue
|
Diarrhea of newborn
|
Diphtheria
|
EPILEPSY
|
FOOD POISONINGS
|
Glanders
|
Infectious encephalitis
|
Infectious hepatitis, including serum hepatitis
|
Influenza
|
LEPROSY
|
Leptospirosis
|
Malaria
|
Measles (rubeola)
|
Meningococcal meningitis
|
MENTAL DEFICIENCY
|
Mumps
|
Ophthalmia neonatorum
|
Pertussis (whooping cough)
|
Plague
|
Pneumonia, all forms
|
Poliomyelitis
|
Psittacosis
|
Q fever
|
Rabies
|
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
|
Salmonellosis (other than typhoid fever)
|
Shigellosis
|
Smallpox
|
Streptococcal sore throat, including scarlet
fever
|
TETANUS
|
TRACHOMA
|
TRICHINOSIS
|
Tuberculosis, all forms
|
Tularemia
|
Typhoid fever
|
Typhus fever
|
Venereal diseases
|
Chancroid
|
Gonorrhea
|
Granuloma inguinale
|
Lymphogranuloma venereum
|
Syphilis
|
Yellow fever
|