Arizona Administrative Code
Title 9 - HEALTH SERVICES
Chapter 6 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICE - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND INFESTATIONS
Article 3 - CONTROL MEASURES FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND INFESTATIONS
Section R9-6-371 - Rubella (German Measles)
Universal Citation: AZ Admin Code R 9-6-371
Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 52, December 27, 2024
A. Case control measures:
1. An administrator of
a school or child care establishment, either personally or through a
representative, shall:
a. Exclude a rubella
case from the school or child care establishment and from school- or
child-care-establishment-sponsored events from the onset of illness through the
seventh calendar day after the rash appears; and
b. Exclude a rubella suspect case from the
school or child care establishment and from school- or
child-care-establishment-sponsored events until evaluated and determined to be
noninfectious by a physician, physician assistant, registered nurse
practitioner, or local health agency.
2. A diagnosing health care provider or an
administrator of a health care institution, either personally or through a
representative and in consultation with the local health agency, shall isolate
and institute droplet precautions for a rubella case through the seventh
calendar day after the rash appears.
3. An administrator of a health care
institution, either personally or through a representative, shall exclude a
rubella:
a. Case from working at the health
care institution from the onset of illness through the seventh calendar day
after the rash appears; and
b.
Suspect case from working at the health care institution until evaluated and
determined to be noninfectious by a physician, physician assistant, registered
nurse practitioner, or local health agency.
4. A
local health agency shall:
a. Upon receiving a
report under
R9-6-202
or
R9-6-203
of a rubella case or suspect case, notify the Department within one working day
after receiving the report and provide to the Department the information
contained in the report;
b. Conduct
an epidemiologic investigation of each reported rubella case or suspect
case;
c. For each rubella case,
submit to the Department, as specified in Table 2.4, the information required
under R9-6-206(D); and
d. Ensure
that one or more specimens from each rubella case or suspect case, as required
by the Department, are submitted to the Arizona State Laboratory.
5. An administrator of a
correctional facility or shelter, either personally or through a
representative, shall comply with the rubella control measures recommended by a
local health agency or the Department.
B. Contact control measures:
1. An administrator of a health care
institution shall ensure that a paid or volunteer full-time or part-time worker
at a health care institution does not participate in the direct care of a
rubella case or suspect case or of a patient who is or may be pregnant unless
the worker first provides evidence of immunity to rubella consisting of:
a. A record of immunization against rubella
given on or after the first birthday; or
b. A statement signed by a physician,
physician assistant, registered nurse practitioner, state health officer, or
local health officer affirming serologic evidence of immunity to
rubella.
2. When a
rubella case has been at a school or child care establishment, the
administrator of the school or child care establishment, either personally or
through a representative, shall:
a. Consult
with the local health agency to determine who shall be excluded and how long
each individual shall be excluded from the school or child care establishment,
and
b. Comply with the local health
agency's recommendations for exclusion.
3. A local health agency shall:
a. Determine which rubella contacts will be
quarantined or excluded, according to
R9-6-303,
to prevent transmission; and
b.
Provide or arrange for immunization of each non-immune rubella contact within
72 hours after last exposure, if possible.
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