Section 690.510  Malaria (Reportable by mail, telephone, facsimile or electronically as soon as possible, within 7 days)

a)         Control of Case.  Standard Precautions shall be followed.

b)         Control of Contacts.  No restrictions.

c)         Laboratory Reporting.

1)         Laboratories shall report to the local health authority, regardless of the patients' state or country of residence, patients who have a positive result on any laboratory test indicative of and specific for detecting Plasmodium species infection.

2)         Laboratories shall forward slides of blood specimens found to contain malaria parasites to the Department's laboratory for speciation.

(Source:  Amended at 32 Ill. Reg. 3777, effective March 3, 2008)