Section 690.365  Cryptosporidiosis (Reportable by mail, telephone, facsimile, or electronically as soon as possible, within three days)

a)         Control of Case

1)         Cases with diarrhea shall not work as food handlers, health care workers, or in sensitive occupations until diarrhea has ceased for at least 48 hours.  No release specimens are required before returning to work for persons employed as food handlers or in sensitive occupations.

2)         Cases shall avoid swimming in public recreational water venues (e.g., swimming pools, whirlpool spas, wading pools, water parks, interactive fountains, lakes) while symptomatic and for two weeks after cessation of diarrhea.

3)         Cases shall not work in jobs or do volunteer work where immersion in recreational water may occur while symptomatic and for two weeks after cessation of diarrhea.

4)         Cases shall be excluded from school or child care facilities until diarrhea has resolved for at least 24 hours without the use of antidiarrheal medications.

b)         Control of Contacts

Contacts with diarrhea shall not work as food handlers, health care workers, or in sensitive occupations until absence of diarrhea for 48 hours.

c)         Sale of Food, Milk, etc. (See Section 690.30(b).)

d)         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 Cryptosporidium species infection.

2)         Laboratories shall report and submit to the Department's laboratory any Cryptosporidium positive stool, animal, food or environmental samples resulting from an outbreak investigation or upon request.

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