Nevada Administrative Code
Chapter 441A - INFECTIOUS DISEASES; TOXIC AGENTS
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 441A.180 - "Suspected case" defined
Universal Citation: NV Admin Code 441A.180
Current through September 16, 2024
"Suspected case" means a person or animal who:
1. Satisfies the clinical, laboratory and epidemiologic criteria set forth in "Case Definitions for Infectious Conditions Under Public Health Surveillance," adopted by reference pursuant to NAC 441A.200, to be classified as a suspected case of:
(a) Anthrax;
(b) Botulism, as defined in NAC
441A.465;
(c) Diphtheria;
(d) Extraordinary occurrence of
illness;
(e) Influenza that is
known or suspected to be of a viral strain that the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention or the World Health Organization has determined poses a risk of
a national or global pandemic;
(f)
Measles;
(g) Meningococcal
disease;
(h) Plague;
(i) Poliovirus infection;
(j) Rabies (human or animal);
(k) Rubella;
(l) Severe acute respiratory syndrome
(SARS);
(m) Smallpox
(variola);
(n)
Tuberculosis;
(o) Tularemia;
or
(p) Viral hemorrhagic fever;
or
2. Is considered by a health care provider to possibly have a communicable disease identified in subsection 1 based on:
(a) Clinical signs and
symptoms consistent with the communicable disease; or
(b) Laboratory evidence indicating the
presence of:
(1) The communicable
disease;
(2) The causative agent of
the communicable disease; or
(3)
The person's or animal's immune response to a causative agent of the
communicable disease.
Added to NAC by Bd. of Health, eff. 1-24-92; A by R087-08, 1-13-2011
NRS 441A.120
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