Illinois Administrative Code
Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH
Part 690 - CONTROL OF NOTIFIABLE DISEASES AND CONDITIONS CODE
Subpart D - DETAILED PROCEDURES FOR THE CONTROL OF NOTIFIABLE DISEASES AND CONDITIONS
Section 690.330 - Brucellosis (Reportable by telephone as soon as possible (within 24 hours), unless suspect bioterrorist event or part of an outbreak, then reportable immediately (within three hours) by telephone)

Universal Citation: 77 IL Admin Code § 690.330

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024

a) Control of Case

1) All Brucella cases shall be investigated with information collected on travel to a country where Brucella is endemic, consumption of unpasteurized dairy products from outside the U.S. or possible exposures related to a bioterrorism event.

2) If a suspect domestic animal source within the United States is identified, the Department will provide this information to the Illinois Department of Agriculture and the United States Department of Agriculture. If a suspect wild animal source is identified the Department will provide this information to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

b) Control of Contacts

No restrictions.

c) Laboratory Reporting and Laboratory Worker Exposures

1) Laboratories shall report to the local health authority all patients who have a positive result on any laboratory test indicative of and specific for detecting Brucella species infection.

2) Laboratories shall forward clinical materials, including, but not limited to, cultures, isolates or serum, suspected to be positive for Brucella species to the Department's laboratory.

3) Laboratories shall report and submit to the Department's laboratory any food, animal or environmental test results positive for Brucella species from a case or outbreak investigation.

4) Laboratories shall cooperate with public health authorities to identify any exposed laboratory workers.

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