Section 690.330  Brucellosis (Reportable by telephone as soon as possible (within 24 hours), unless suspect bioterrorist event or part of an outbreak, then reportable immediately (within three hours) by telephone)

a)         Control of Case

1)         All Brucella cases shall be investigated with information collected on travel to a country where Brucella is endemic, consumption of unpasteurized dairy products from outside the U.S. or possible exposures related to a bioterrorism event.

2)         If a suspect domestic animal source within the United States is identified, the Department will provide this information to the Illinois Department of Agriculture and the United States Department of Agriculture. If a suspect wild animal source is identified the Department will provide this information to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

b)         Control of Contacts 

No restrictions.

c)         Laboratory Reporting and Laboratory Worker Exposures

1)         Laboratories shall report to the local health authority all patients who have a positive result on any laboratory test indicative of and specific for detecting Brucella species infection.

2)         Laboratories shall forward clinical materials, including, but not limited to, cultures, isolates or serum, suspected to be positive for Brucella species to the Department's laboratory.

3)         Laboratories shall report and submit to the Department's laboratory any food, animal or environmental test results positive for Brucella species from a case or outbreak investigation.

4)         Laboratories shall cooperate with public health authorities to identify any exposed laboratory workers.

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