Should an employee be able to work if he or she has molluscum contagiosum?
If an employee who comes in physical contact with clients regularly (e.g., aesthetician, health care provider) is diagnosed with molluscum contagiosum by a health care professional, it would be reasonable to require that he/she cover visible lesions with a watertight dressing while at work even though there has only been one reported case series of nosocomial (health care provider-to-patient) transmission of molluscum contagiosum. Otherwise, no special precautions are needed.
