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 690.442 - Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (Reportable by telephone as soon as possible, within 24 hours)

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

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.

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