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Title 9 - HEALTH SERVICESChapter 6 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICE - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND INFESTATIONS
Article 3 - CONTROL MEASURES FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND INFESTATIONS
Section R9-6-344 - Hepatitis B and Hepatitis D

Ariz. Admin. Code § 9-6-344

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Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 50, December 13, 2024
Section R9-6-344 - Hepatitis B and Hepatitis D
A. Case control measures:
1. A local health agency shall:
a. Evaluate a health care provider identified as the source of hepatitis B virus transmission in the work place and, if indicated, ensure reassignment of the health care provider to a position where the occupational risk of transmission is eliminated;
b. Conduct an epidemiologic investigation of each reported case or suspect case of hepatitis B or hepatitis B co-infected with hepatitis D; and
c. For each acute case of hepatitis B or hepatitis B co-infected with hepatitis D or case of perinatal hepatitis B, submit to the Department, as specified in Table 2.4, the information required under R9-6-206(D).
2. The operator of a blood bank, blood center, or plasma center shall notify a donor of a test result with significant evidence suggestive of hepatitis B, as required under A.R.S. § 32-1483 and 21 CFR 630.6.
B. Contact control measures: A local health agency shall:
1. Refer each non-immune hepatitis B contact to a health care provider for prophylaxis and initiation of the hepatitis B vaccine series, and
2. Provide health education related to the progression of hepatitis B disease and the prevention of transmission of hepatitis B infection to each non-immune hepatitis B contact.

Ariz. Admin. Code § R9-6-344

Renumbered from R9-6-737 and amended effective October 19, 1993 (Supp. 93-4). Former Section R9-6-344 renumbered to R9-6-347; new Section R9-6-344 renumbered from R9-6-341 and amended effective April 4, 1997 (Supp. 97-2). Former R9-6-344 renumbered to R9-6-352; new R9-6-344 renumbered from R9-6-337 and amended by final rulemaking at 10 A.A.R. 3559, effective October 2, 2004 (Supp. 04-3). Former R9-6-344 renumbered to R9-6-347; new R9-6-344 renumbered from R9-6-341and amended by final rulemaking at 14 A.A.R. 1502, effective April 1, 2008 (Supp. 08-2). Amended and renumbered from R9-6-338 by final rulemaking at 23 A.A.R. 2606, effective 1/1/2018.