Utah Admin. Code R386-702-11 - General Measures for the Control of Communicable Diseases
(1) The local
health department shall maintain reportable disease records as needed to
enforce Chapter 7 of the Health and Human Services Code and this rule, or as
requested by the Utah Department of Health and Human Services.
(2) General control measures for reportable
diseases are as follows:
(a) The local health
department shall, when an unusual or rare disease occurs in any part of the
state or when any disease becomes so prevalent as to endanger the state as a
whole, contact the Office of Communicable Diseases, Utah Department of Health
and Human Services for assistance, and shall cooperate with the representatives
of the Utah Department of Health and Human Services.
(b) The local health department shall
investigate and control the causes of epidemic, infectious, communicable, and
other disease affecting the public health. The local health department shall
also provide for the detection, reporting, prevention, and control of
communicable, infectious, and acute diseases that are dangerous or important or
that may affect the public health. The local health department may require
physical examination and measures to be performed as necessary to protect the
health of others.
(c) If, in the
opinion of the local health officer it is necessary or advisable to protect the
public's health that any person shall be kept from contact with the public, the
local health officer shall establish, maintain, and enforce involuntary
treatment, isolation, and quarantine as provided by Section
26B-7-204. Control measures shall
be specific to the known or suspected disease agent. Guidance is available from
the Office of Communicable Diseases, Utah Department of Health and Human
Services, or official reference listed in Section R386-702-18.
(d) The local health department shall take
action and measures as may be necessary within Section
26B-7-204 Involuntary
examination, treatment, isolation, and quarantine, and this rule, to prevent
the spread of any communicable disease, infectious agent, or any other
condition that pose a public health hazard. Action shall be initiated upon
discovery of a case or upon receipt of notification or report of any
disease.
(e) A case; suspected
case; carrier; contact; other person; or entity, including a facility, hotel,
or other organization, shall, upon request of a public health authority,
promptly cooperate during:
(i) an
investigation of the circumstances or cause of a case, suspected case,
outbreak, or suspected outbreak.
(ii) the carrying out of measures for
prevention, suppression, and control of a public health hazard, including
procedures of restriction, isolation, and quarantine.
(3) Control measures for public
food handlers and places where food or drink products are handled or processed
are as follows:
(a) A person known to be
infected with a communicable disease that can be transmitted by food or drink
products, or who is suspected of being infected with such a disease, may not
engage in the commercial handling of food or drink products, or be employed on
any premises handling those types of products, unless those products are
packaged off-site and remain in a closed container until purchased for
consumption, until the person is determined by the local health department to
be free of communicable disease, or incapable of transmitting the
infection.
(b) If a case, carrier,
or suspected case of a disease that can be conveyed by food or drink products
is found at any place where food or drink products are handled or offered for
sale, or if a disease is found or suspected to have been transmitted by these
food or drink products, the local health department may immediately prohibit
the sale, or removal of drink and other food products from the premises. Sale
or distribution of food or drink products from the premises may be resumed when
measures have been taken to eliminate the threat to health from the product and
its processing.
(c) If a local
health department finds it is not able to completely comply with this rule, the
local health officer or their representative shall request the assistance of
the Utah Department of Health and Human Services. In such circumstances, the
local health department shall provide required information to the Office of
Communicable Diseases. If the local health officer fails to comply with this
rule, the Utah Department of Health and Human Services shall take action
necessary to enforce this rule.
(d)
Laboratory analyses that are necessary to identify the causative agents of
reportable diseases or to determine adequacy of treatment of patients with a
disease shall be ordered by the physician or other health care provider to be
performed in or referred to a laboratory holding a valid certificate under the
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988.
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