Smallpox (Reportable by telephone immediately, within three hours upon initial clinical suspicion of the disease)

Section 690 Section 690.650  Smallpox (Reportable by telephone immediately , within three hours upon initial clinical suspicion of the disease) a)         Control of Case Cases shall be admitted to a health care setting. b)         Control of Contacts Post-exposure immunization, within three to four days after exposure, provides some protection against disease and significant protection against a fatal outcome.  It is recommended that any person with significant exposure to a person with probable or confirmed smallpox during the infectious stage of illness be immunized as soon after exposure as possible, within the first four days after exposure. c)         Sale of Food, Milk, etc. (See Section 690.30(b).) d)         Laboratory Reporting 1)         Laboratories shall immediately report to the local health authority all persons for whom smallpox testing has been requested. 2)         Laboratories shall immediately report to the local health authority accidental laboratory exposures, injuries or infections in a laboratory worker working with smallpox vaccine or specimens. 3)         Laboratories shall contact the Department for instructions prior to the shipment of specimens. 4)         Laboratories shall report to the local health authority patients who have a positive result on any laboratory test indicative of and specific for detecting smallpox infection.