25 Tex. Admin. Code § 97.8 - General Control Measures for Notifiable Conditions
Except for diseases for which equivalent measures of investigation and control are specifically provided in other sections in this chapter, the Commissioner of Health (commissioner), a health authority, or a duly authorized representative of the commissioner or a health authority may proceed as follows.
(1) Investigation
shall be made, as the circumstances may require, for verifying the diagnosis,
ascertaining the source of the causative agent, disclosing unreported cases,
and finding contacts. On request, a person shall provide the Department of
State Health Services (department) or health authority with records, data, and
other information according to the written instruction of the department or
health authority. The health authority and the department shall keep this
information confidential.
(2)
Laboratory specimens of the body tissues, fluids, or discharges and of
materials directly or indirectly associated with the case, as may be necessary
or desirable in confirmation of the diagnosis or for ascertaining the source of
the infection, shall be collected and submitted to a laboratory for
examination.
(3) Control
techniques, including disinfection, environmental sanitation, immunization,
chemoprophylaxis, isolation, preventive therapy, quarantine, education,
prevention, and other accepted measures shall be instituted as necessary to
reduce morbidity and mortality. In establishing quarantine or isolation, the
health authority shall designate and define the limits of the areas in which
the persons are quarantined or isolated.
(4) Information concerning the disease and
its prevention shall be given to the patient or a responsible member of the
patient's household to prevent further spread of the disease.
(5) Control measures implemented by the
health authority shall be consistent with and at least as stringent as those
control measure standards imposed by the department. Individual control
measures implemented by the health authority are subject to review and
modification or change by the commissioner.
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