Communicable Diseases

SICK DAY GUIDELINES

• When to Keep Your Child Home, by the Lake County Health Department in English and Spanish
• Is It the Cold or the Flu? (Spanish) 

FLU / INFLUENZA

• Prevention
  • Flu Vaccine Fact Sheet ( English / Spanish )
  • The best way to prevent the flu is by vaccination (Spanish) for everyone 6 months or older.
  • Everyday Preventive Actions can Help Fight Germs like the Flu  (Spanish) to reduce the spread of germs. 
• Cold or Flu? How to Tell the Difference (Spanish)
• Flu Guide for Parents (Spanish) 

CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019 (COVID-19)

• What You Should Know (English / Español)

OTHER

• Strep Throat  (Spanish)
• Norovirus Information ( English / Spanish ) 
• Hand Foot and Mouth Disease aka Coxsackie Virus (Spanish)
• Impetigo (Spanish)
• Ticks and risk of Lyme Disease
• Lyme Disease awareness and prevention
• MRSA - Guide for parents
   

VACCINE PREVENTABLE CHILDHOOD DISEASES

MUMPS 

• Vaccination Fact Sheet (Spanish) for Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR)
• More research on Autism and MMR Vaccine: The two are not linked.

PERTUSSIS/ WHOOPING COUGH

• Pertussis Fact Sheet - LCHD ( English / Spanish )
• Pertussis: CDC Information
• Tdap vaccine information sheet (Español)

CHICKEN POX / VARICELLA

• Chicken Pox Fact Sheet (Spanish)
• Varicella Vaccine Information (Spanish)

MEASLES

• Measles disease and vaccination information (Spanish)
• Measles Rules - IL Administrative Code 
• More research on Autism and MMR Vaccine: The two are not linked.

MENINGITIS

• Bacterial Meningitis 
• Meningitis Bacteriana (Spanish)
• Viral Meningitis
• Meningitis Viral (Spanish)

POLIO

• POLIO Fact Sheet: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/diseases/polio.html
• POLIO Fact Sheet (Spanish): ttps://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/diseases/polio-sp.html

HEPATITIS B

• Hepatitis B Fact Sheet: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/diseases/hepb.html
• Hepatitis B Fact Sheet (Spanish): https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/diseases/hepb-sp.htm