New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Chapter II - Administrative Rules and Regulations
Subchapter B - State Aid And Funding
Part 44 - State Aid For Approved Vector Surveillance And Control Programs
Section 44.20 - Definitions
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024
For the purposes of these rules and regulations, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) Arthropod shall mean a member of the phylum Arthropoda, animals with jointed appendages.
(b) Presumptive human case shall mean the occurrence of one or more of the following:
(c) Confirmed human case shall mean the occurrence of one or more of the following:
(d) Clustering shall mean multiple human cases of disease which may be considered related to each other by proximity, source or simultaneity of occurrence.
(e) Control shall mean any measure taken to reduce or eliminate a vector arthropod species or related disease threat. Control measures may include water management, use of biological agents, chemical ground application, chemical air application, or any other method used to reduce or eliminate vector arthropods.
(f) Endemic shall mean the continued presence of a disease in an area, or the cyclic reintroduction of a disease into the same area.
(g) Epidemic shall mean the occurrence of recognizable disease or illness in the human or animal host outside the endemic area or an excess incidence of the disease beyond that usual in an endemic area.
(h) Etiologic agent shall mean the pathogen responsible for causing a disease or illness.
(i) Host shall mean a man or other living animal, including birds and arthropods, which affords subsistence or lodgement to an infectious agent under natural conditions.
(j) Reservoir shall mean a human, animal or arthropod in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies and on which it depends primarily for survival and serves as a source of infection for a susceptible host.
(k) Response protocols shall mean the procedure followed by the NYSDH in response to a documented public health threat or emergency.
(l) Surveillance shall mean the epidemiologic study of a disease as a dynamic process involving the ecology of the infectious agent, the host, the reservoirs and the vectors as well as the complex mechanisms concerned in the spread of infections and the extent to which this spread occurs.
(m) Vector shall mean an arthropod species capable of carrying and transmitting a disease agent.
(n) Vector surveillance program shall mean the activities of any agency designed to accomplish any or all of the following:
(o) Commissioner shall mean the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health.