Section 690.550  Mumps (Reportable by telephone, facsimile or electronically as soon as possible, within 24 hours)

a)         Control of Case

1)         Standard precautions and droplet precautions shall be followed for patients in health care facilities or community settings for five days after parotid gland swelling.

2)         Cases shall be excluded from school, child care facilities or the workplace until five days after onset of symptoms (parotitis).

b)         Control of Contacts

Susceptible close contacts shall be excluded from school, child care facilities or the workplace from days 12 through 25 after exposure.

c)         Laboratory Reporting

Laboratories shall report to the local health authority patients who have a positive result on any laboratory test indicative of and specific for detecting mumps virus infection, including positive results for IgM (mumps specific) serologies, a significant rise in antibody to IgG (mumps specific) between paired sera, polymerase chain reaction, or mumps virus isolates.

(Source:  Amended at 38 Ill. Reg. 5533, effective February 11, 2014)