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Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTHPart 690 - CONTROL OF NOTIFIABLE DISEASES AND CONDITIONS CODE
Subpart D - DETAILED PROCEDURES FOR THE CONTROL OF NOTIFIABLE DISEASES AND CONDITIONS
Section 690.442 - Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (Reportable by telephone as soon as possible, within 24 hours)

Ill. Admin. Code tit. 77 § 690.442

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Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 24, June 14, 2024
Section 690.442 - Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (Reportable by telephone as soon as possible, within 24 hours)
a) Control of Case

The local health authority shall investigate cases to determine locations of exposure to rodents, which can transmit hantavirus, in the two months before illness onset.

b) Control of Contacts

No specific restrictions.

c) Laboratory Reporting
1) Laboratories shall report to the local health authority patients who have a positive result on any laboratory test indicative of and specific for detecting hantavirus infection.
2) Laboratories shall forward clinical materials positive for hantavirus to the Department's laboratory.
3) Upon request of the Department, veterinary diagnostic laboratories shall send animal specimens from a suspect outbreak or emerging virus situation to the Department.

Ill. Admin. Code tit. 77, § 690.442

Amended at 38 Ill. Reg. 5533, effective February 11, 2014
Amended at 48 Ill. Reg. 4098, effective 2/27/2024