N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 10 § 2.40

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 51, December 18, 2024

Section 2.40 - Carriers of disease germs defined; subject to restrictions

(a) For the purpose of the Public Health Law and this Chapter a carrier of disease germs is a person in whose secretions or excretions the germs of a communicable disease are present but who does not present clinical evidence of such disease.

(b) A person shall be deemed a carrier of disease germs if:

(1) the germs of communicable disease are found in his secretions or excretions by an approved laboratory; or

(2) epidemiological evidence points to such person as the source of one or more cases of communicable disease and such person refuses to submit specimens of his bodily secretions or excretions for laboratory examination; or

(3) such person is reported as a carrier of disease germs to the State Department of Health by the health authorities of New York City or of any state or nation.

(c) In typhoid fever a person shall be considered a carrier who has not suffered from the disease within 10 days, provided that any person, in whose feces or urine or other discharge from the body typhoid bacilli are present, who has not suffered from typhoid fever within one year may be declared by the State Commissioner of Health to be a chronic typhoid carrier.

[FN*] See Public Health Law, §§225, 2150.

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 10 § 2.40