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 690.650 - Smallpox (Reportable by telephone immediately, within three hours upon initial clinical suspicion of the disease)
Universal Citation: 77 IL Admin Code ยง 690.650
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024
a) Control of Case
Cases shall be admitted to a health care setting.
b) Control of Contacts
Post-exposure immunization, within three to four days after exposure, provides some protection against disease and significant protection against a fatal outcome. It is recommended that any person with significant exposure to a person with probable or confirmed smallpox during the infectious stage of illness be immunized as soon after exposure as possible, within the first four days after exposure.
c) Sale of Food, Milk, etc. (See Section 690.30(b).)
d) Laboratory Reporting
1) Laboratories shall immediately report to
the local health authority all persons for whom smallpox testing has been
requested.
2) Laboratories shall
immediately report to the local health authority accidental laboratory
exposures, injuries or infections in a laboratory worker working with smallpox
vaccine or specimens.
3)
Laboratories shall contact the Department for instructions prior to the
shipment of specimens.
4)
Laboratories shall report to the local health authority patients who have a
positive result on any laboratory test indicative of and specific for detecting
smallpox infection.
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