Athletic Training Communicable Disease Policy

In accordance with guidelines from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and the Lafene Student Health Center at Kansas State University, the following policies and procedures have been developed for the control of communicable diseases. Any student who is diagnosed with a communicable disease of any form is required to be reported to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Students who contract a communicable disease are required to obey prescribed guidelines by their attending physician and the recommendations of the University-affiliated physicians at Lafene Student Health Center. Students may not participate in clinical rotations and field experiences during the time they are affected by the communicable disease and shall not return to clinical participation until allowed by the attending physician. The following communicable diseases fall under this policy:

• AIDS
• Amebiasis
• Anthrax
• Botulism
• Brucellosis
• Campylobacter infections
• Chancroid
• Chlamydia trachomatis infection
• Cholera
• Diphtheria
• Infectious encephalitis
• Escherichia coli
• Giardiasis
• Gonorrhea
• Haemophilus influenza
• Hand, foot and mouth syndrome
• Viral and acute hepatitis
• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B
• Hepatitis C
• Herpes
• Hantavirus
• HIV
• Legionellosis
• Leprosy (Hansen's disease)
• Lyme disease
• Malaria
• Measles
• Meningitis (bacterial)
• Meningococcemia
• Mumps
• Pertussis (whooping cough)
• Plague
• Poliomyelitis
• Psittacosis
• Rocky Mountain spotted fever
• Rubella
• Salmonellosis (typhoid fever)
• Shigellosis
• Streptococcus pneumonia
• Syphilis
• Tetanus
• Toxic shock syndrome
• Trichinosis
• Tuberculosis
• Tularemia
• Yellow fever
• Pinworms
• Ringworm
• Scabies
• Shingles (herpes zoster)