R9-6-351. Hepatitis E

Case control measures: A local health agency shall: 1. Exclude a hepatitis E 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. Conduct an epidemiologic investigation of each reported hepatitis E case or suspect case; and 3. For each hepatitis E case, submit to the Department, as specified in Table 2.4, the information required under R9- 6-206(D).