Ill. Admin. Code tit. 77, § 690.442 - Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (Reportable by telephone as soon as possible, within 24 hours)
a) Control of
Case
The local health authority shall investigate cases to determine locations of exposure to rodents, which can transmit hantavirus, in the two months before illness onset.
b) Control of Contacts
No specific restrictions.
c) Laboratory Reporting
1) Laboratories shall report to the local
health authority patients who have a positive result on any laboratory test
indicative of and specific for detecting hantavirus infection.
2) Laboratories shall forward clinical
materials positive for hantavirus to the Department's laboratory.
3) Upon request of the Department, veterinary
diagnostic laboratories shall send animal specimens from a suspect outbreak or
emerging virus situation to the Department.
Notes
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