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 690.365 - Cryptosporidiosis (Reportable by mail, telephone, facsimile, or electronically as soon as possible, within three days)
Universal Citation: 77 IL Admin Code ยง 690.365
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024
a) Control of Case
1) Cases with diarrhea shall not work as food
handlers, health care workers, or in sensitive occupations until diarrhea has
ceased for at least 48 hours. No release specimens are required before
returning to work for persons employed as food handlers or in sensitive
occupations.
2) Cases shall avoid
swimming in public recreational water venues (e.g., swimming pools, whirlpool
spas, wading pools, water parks, interactive fountains, lakes) while
symptomatic and for two weeks after cessation of diarrhea.
3) Cases shall not work in jobs or do
volunteer work where immersion in recreational water may occur while
symptomatic and for two weeks after cessation of diarrhea.
4) Cases shall be excluded from school or
child care facilities until diarrhea has resolved for at least 24 hours without
the use of antidiarrheal medications.
b) Control of Contacts
Contacts with diarrhea shall not work as food handlers, health care workers, or in sensitive occupations until absence of diarrhea for 48 hours.
c) Sale of Food, Milk, etc. (See Section 690.30(b).)
d) 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 Cryptosporidium species
infection.
2) Laboratories shall
report and submit to the Department's laboratory any Cryptosporidium positive
stool, animal, food or environmental samples resulting from an outbreak
investigation or upon request.
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