Chicken pox has been diagnosed in five infants at the Cambridge School at , Montgomery County Health Department officials said Tuesday.
“We don’t know the onset of it. We found out about it (Monday) and started getting information about it today,” health department spokeswoman Harriet Morton said of the outbreak.
Eleven other infants have since been kept home from the school because they were in contact with the five infants who have been diagnosed, Morton said. The typical quarantine period is 21 days, she added.
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The chicken pox has been limited to one classroom at the school, said Cambridge Schools CEO Carol Rabe. Those children were too young to receive the vaccinations against the illness, which are typically administered between 12 and 15 months of age, Morton said.
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