Ariz. Admin. Code § R9-6-348 - Hepatitis A
A. Case control
measures: A local health agency shall: 1.2. Exclude a hepatitis A
case or suspect case from working as a food handler, caring for patients or
residents in a health care institution, or caring for children in or attending
a child care establishment during the first 14 calendar days of illness or for
seven calendar days after onset of jaundice;
2.3. Conduct an
epidemiologic investigation of each reported hepatitis A case or suspect case;
and
3.4. For each hepatitis A
case, submit to the Department, as specified in Table 2.4, the information
required under
R9-6-206(D).
1.
Upon receiving a report of a hepatitis A case or suspect case, notify the
Department within one working day after receiving the report and provide to the
Department the information contained in the report;
B. Contact control measures: A
local health agency shall:
1. Exclude a
hepatitis A contact with symptoms of hepatitis A from working as a food handler
during the first 14 calendar days of illness or for seven calendar days after
onset of jaundice;
2. For 45
calendar days after exposure, monitor a food handler who was a contact of a
hepatitis A case during the infectious period for symptoms of hepatitis A;
and
3. Evaluate the level of risk
of transmission from each contact's exposure to a hepatitis A case and, if
indicated, provide or arrange for each contact to receive prophylaxis and
immunization.
Notes
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Case control measures: A local health agency shall:
1. Upon receiving a report under R9-6-202 of a case or suspect case of an influenza-associated death of a child, notify the Department within one working day after receiving the report and provide to the Department the information contained in the report;