Section 690.752  Yersiniosis (Reportable by mail, telephone, facsimile or electronically, within 7 days)

a)         Control of Case.

1)         Standard Precautions shall be followed. Contact Precautions shall be followed for diapered or incontinent persons or during institutional outbreaks until absence of diarrhea for 24 hours.

2)         Cases who are employed as food handlers or in sensitive occupations shall be excluded from work until absence of  diarrhea for at least 24 hours.

b)         Control of Contacts.  No restrictions.

c)         Sale of Food, Milk, etc. (See Section 690.1000(b).)

d)         Laboratory Reporting.

1)         Laboratories shall report to the local health authority patients from whom Yersinia enterocolitica or Yersinia pseudotuberculosis has been isolated  or patients who have a positive result on any laboratory test indicative of and specific for detecting Yersinia infection.

2)         Laboratories shall report and submit to the Department's laboratory any food, environmental or animal Yersinia isolates resulting from an outbreak investigation.

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