Nevada Administrative Code
Chapter 441A - INFECTIOUS DISEASES; TOXIC AGENTS
INVESTIGATING, REPORTING, PREVENTING, SUPPRESSING AND CONTROLLING PARTICULAR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
Miscellaneous Communicable Diseases
Section 441A.670 - Rotavirus infection

1. The health authority shall investigate each report of a case having rotavirus infection, as identified by laboratory confirmation of the presence of rotavirus in clinical specimens or by the demonstration of a specific serologic response in acute and convalescent sera, to:

2. An infant or child having rotaviral diarrhea shall not attend a child care facility until asymptomatic, unless the child care facility would be prohibited from preventing the infant or child from attending by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101 et seq., or NRS 651.050 to 651.120, inclusive. The health authority shall instruct a child care facility where an infant or child having rotaviral diarrhea is attending of the need and proper method of hand washing and other practices for the control of infection which prevent the transmission of rotavirus.

3. If a case having rotavirus infection is in a medical facility, the medical facility shall provide care to the case in accordance with enteric precautions or other appropriate disease specific precautions.