Roger that... I'll start fueling the birds.
Did the article mention if these kids had the rash on their bottoms or not? My daughters both had the fifth disease at the same time when they were in 3rd & 4th grade. I was volunteering at the school in the classroom at the time and every kid in class looked like they had been slapped silly. The doctors said that once the redness shows up the child is no longer contageous so they were all at school. It was actually pretty funny watching a classroom full of 4th graders squirming in their seats because their back ends itched like mad. The rashes did have little bumps in them as well as the lacy look
I do remember though that they had to call in substitute teachers for several weeks for two of the teachers that were pregnant. It's as dangerous for a pregnant woman to be around fifth disease as it is to have her around measels. Bad news!