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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 R9-6-364 - Plague

Ariz. Admin. Code § 9-6-364

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Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 50, December 13, 2024
Section R9-6-364 - Plague
A. Case control measures:
1. A diagnosing health care provider or an administrator of a health care institution, either personally or through a representative, shall isolate and institute droplet precautions for a pneumonic plague case or suspect case until 72 hours of antibiotic therapy have been completed with favorable clinical response.
2. An individual handling the body of a deceased plague case shall use droplet precautions.
3. A local health agency shall:
a. Upon receiving a report under R9-6-202 of a plague case or suspect case, notify the Department within 24 hours after receiving the report and provide to the Department the information contained in the report;
b. Conduct an epidemiologic investigation of each reported plague case or suspect case;
c. For each plague case, submit to the Department, as specified in Table 2.4, the information required under R9-6-206(D); and
d. Ensure that an isolate or a specimen, as available, from each plague case or suspect case is submitted to the Arizona State Laboratory.
B. Contact control measures: A local health agency shall provide follow-up to pneumonic plague contacts for seven calendar days after last exposure to a pneumonic plague case.

Ariz. Admin. Code § R9-6-364

Former Section R9-6-115, Paragraph (44), renumbered and amended as R9-6-757 effective January 28, 1987 (Supp. 87-1). Renumbered from R9-6-757 and amended effective October 19, 1993 (Supp. 93-4). Former Section R9-6-364 renumbered to R9-6-368; new Section R9-6-364 renumbered from R9-6-360 effective April 4, 1997 (Supp. 97-2). Former R9-6-364 renumbered to R9-6-372; new R9-6-364 made by final rulemaking at 10 A.A.R. 3559, effective October 2, 2004 (Supp. 04-3). Former R9-6-364 renumbered to R9-6-369; new R9-6-364 renumbered from R9-6-359and amended by final rulemaking at 14 A.A.R. 1502, effective April 1, 2008 (Supp. 08-2). Amended and renumbered from R9-6-357 by final rulemaking at 23 A.A.R. 2607, effective 1/1/2018.