R9-6-348. Hepatitis A

A. Case control measures: A local health agency shall: 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; 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; 3. Conduct an epidemiologic investigation of each reported hepatitis A case or suspect case; and 4. For each hepatitis A case, submit to the Department, as specified in Table 2.4, the information required under R9- 6-206(D). 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.