Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (Reportable by telephone as soon as possible, within 24 hours)

Section 690 Section 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.