Section 690.698  Tickborne Infections (Includes African Tick Bite Fever, Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Bourbon Virus, Ehrlichiosis, Heartland Virus, Lyme Disease and Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis) (Reportable by mail, telephone, facsimile, or electronically, within three days)

a)         Control of Case

No specific restrictions.

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 any tickborne infection.

2)         Laboratories shall hold tickborne specimens with serologic evidence of elevated IgG or IgM antibody reactive with the suspected agent for a minimum of 30 days, and upon request by the Department or local health authority forward to the Department's laboratory clinical materials from patients who are suspected by the Department or the local health authority of having an acute tickborne infection.

(Source:  Amended at 48 Ill. Reg. 4098, effective February 27, 2024)