Übertragbare Erkrankung oder Verdacht auf übertragbare Erkrankungen in Gemeinschaftseinrichtungen melden

§§ Sections 33 and 34 of the Infection Protection Act (IfSG)
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ifsg/__34.html

If you suspect that a communicable disease exists in your community facility, you must report it.

As the management of a community facility such as

• day care centers and nurseries,
• Child day care requiring a license,
• schools and other educational institutions,
• homes and
• vacation camps

are obliged to notify the competent authority immediately if there is a suspicion that persons working or being cared for in the facility have contracted a communicable infection.

This includes the following diseases:

• Cholera
• diphtheria
• Enteritis caused by enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC)
• viral hemorrhagic fever
• Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis
• Impetigo contagiosa (contagious bark lichen)
• whooping cough
• contagious pulmonary tuberculosis
• measles
• meningococcal infection
• mumps
• diseases caused by orthopox viruses
• paratyphoid fever
• plague
• poliomyelitis
• rubella
• Scarlet fever or other Streptococcus pyogenes infections
• shigellosis
• Scabies (scabies)
• Typhus abdominalis
• Viral hepatitis A or E
• chickenpox
• Lice infestation.

Affected employees may not carry out any teaching, educational, care, supervisory or other activities in which they have contact with the people cared for there until, in the opinion of a doctor, there is no longer any risk of them spreading the disease or lice.

This also applies to cared-for persons who are not allowed to enter the rooms used for the operation of the communal facility, use the facilities of the communal facility or participate in events at the communal facility until the medical opinion has been obtained.

In the case of head lice:

• Parents' declaration of proper treatment.
• In the case of a single infestation, confirmation of proper treatment is sufficient for re-admission.

There is a suspicion that one of the following diseases is present in a person working or being cared for:

• Cholera
• Diphtheria
• Enteritis caused by enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC)
• viral hemorrhagic fever
• Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis
• Impetigo contagiosa (contagious bark lichen)
• whooping cough
• contagious pulmonary tuberculosis
• measles
• meningococcal infection
• mumps
• diseases caused by orthopox viruses
• paratyphoid fever
• plague
• poliomyelitis
• rubella
• Scarlet fever or other Streptococcus pyogenes infections
• shigellosis
• Scabies (scabies)
• Typhus abdominalis
• Viral hepatitis A or E
• chickenpox
• Lice infestation.

If you are concerned that one of the following diseases is present in a person working or being cared for, notify the competent authority immediately:

• Cholera
• Diphtheria
• Enteritis caused by enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC)
• viral hemorrhagic fever
• Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis
• Impetigo contagiosa (contagious bark lichen)
• whooping cough
• contagious pulmonary tuberculosis
• measles
• meningococcal infection
• mumps
• diseases caused by orthopox viruses
• paratyphoid fever
• plague
• poliomyelitis
• rubella
• Scarlet fever or other Streptococcus pyogenes infections
• shigellosis
• Scabies (scabies)
• Typhus abdominalis
• Viral hepatitis A or E
• chickenpox
• lice infestation.

You name the disease and give the details of the person affected.

You notify the authorities immediately.

• If certain diseases are suspected, managers of community facilities should inform the competent authority immediately
  • cholera
  • diphtheria
  • Enteritis caused by enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC)
  • viral hemorrhagic fever
  • Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis
  • Impetigo contagiosa (contagious bark lichen)
  • whooping cough
  • contagious pulmonary tuberculosis
  • measles
  • meningococcal infection
  • mumps
  • diseases caused by orthopox viruses
  • paratyphoid fever
  • plague
  • poliomyelitis
  • rubella
  • Scarlet fever or other Streptococcus pyogenes infections
  • shigellosis
  • Scabies (scabies)
  • Typhus abdominalis
  • Viral hepatitis A or E
  • chickenpox
  • Lice infestation.

• Community facilities are
  • Day care centers and day nurseries,
  • child day care requiring a permit,
  • schools and other educational institutions,
  • homes and
  • vacation camps.