COMMUNICABLE DISEASE

communicable disease

When your child has a communicable (contagious) disease, you may wonder how long he/she needs to stay home from school. Gahanna-Jefferson students with a communicable disease are excluded from school in accordance with the recommendations from the Ohio Department of Health (PDF).

Other information:

Bed bugs

• Questions and answers
• Do's and don'ts
• Minimizing an infestation

Enterovirus (PDF)

Flu (PDF)

Head lice (DOC)

MRSA (PDF)

Pertussis (PDF)

Tuberculosis

• GJPS tuberculosis testing requirements (PDF)