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Notice: 9516687

Notice of Proposed Rule

Department:

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

Division:

Division of Disease Control

Chapter:

CONTROL OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND CONDITIONS WHICH MAY SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECT PUBLIC HEALTH

Overview

RULE:

64D-3.029	Diseases or Conditions to be Reported
64D-3.031	Notification by Laboratories

PURPOSE:

The purpose of these changes is to remove lower-priority diseases that are currently reportable to the Department of Health by physicians, hospitals and/or laboratories from the list of reportable diseases. Cases of reportable diseases are tracked and investigated by the Department of Health for the purposes of preventing additional cases and disease outbreaks.

SUMMARY:

Subject area to be addressed: Communicable disease monitoring. The following diseases will be removed from the list of reportable diseases: Encephalitis, other (non-arboviral); Meningitis, bacterial, cryptococcal and mycotic; Streptococcal disease, invasive Group A; Toxoplasmosis; Typhus fever (endemic).
The following diseases will have clarifications to their reporting requirements: Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease; Hepatitis C, chronic; Haemophilus influenzae, meningitis and invasive disease; Lead poisoning; Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever; Vibriosis; Streptococcus pneumoniae, viral hemorrhagic fevers.
Central-line-associated bloodstream infections in hospitalized patients are made reportable by giving DOH access to reports already being made by hospitals to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY:

381.0031(6) FS.

LAW:

381.0031(6) FS.

PRINT PUBLISH DATE:

12/30/2010 Vol. 36/52

COMMENTS:

From 12/30/2010 To 1/20/2011 (21 Days)
The public comment period for this notice has already expired.

REFERENCE MATERIALS:

No reference(s).

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