Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 36 - Reportable Diseases and Laboratory Findings › Section 19a-36-A1 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
As used in Sections
				19a-36
				-A1 to 19a-36-A55:
(a) "Authorized
			 agent" means an individual designated by a local director of health to act for
			 him or her in the performance of any of his or her duties.
(b) "Carrier" means an infected person or
			 animal who, without any apparent symptoms of communicable disease, harbors a
			 specific infectious agent and may serve as a source of infection for humans.
			 The state of harboring a specific infectious agent may occur in an individual
			 with an infection that is inapparent throughout its course (asymptomatic
			 carrier), or in an individual during the incubation period, convalescence, and
			 post-convalescence of a clinically recognizable disease (incubatory carrier and
			 convalescent carrier). The carrier state may be of short duration (transient
			 carrier) or long duration (chronic carrier).
(c) "Case" means a person or animal who
			 exhibits evidence of disease.
(d)
			 "Cleaning" means the process of removal of organic matter conducive to growth
			 or maintenance of infectivity of infectious agents by scrubbing and washing as
			 with hot water and soap.
(e)
			 "Commissioner" means the state commissioner of health services.
(f) "Communicable disease" means a disease or
			 condition, the infectious agent of which may pass or be carried directly or
			 indirectly, from the body of one person or animal to the body of another person
			 or animal.
(g) "Communicable
			 period" means any time period during which a specific infectious agent may be
			 transferred directly or indirectly from an infected person or animal to another
			 human or animal.
(h) "Contact"
			 means a person or animal known to have had association with an infected person
			 or animal in such a manner as to have been exposed to a particular communicable
			 disease.
(i) "Contamination" means
			 the presence of undesirable substance or material which may contain an
			 infectious agent on external body surfaces (e.g., skin), articles of apparel,
			 inanimate surfaces or in food or beverages.
(j) "Cultures" mean growths of an infectious
			 agent propogated on selected living or artificial media.
(k) "Date of onset" means the day, month and
			 year on which the case or suspected case experienced the first sign or symptoms
			 of the disease.
(l) "Department"
			 means the Connecticut Department of Health Services.
(m) "Disinfection" means a directly applied
			 chemical or physical process by which the disease producing powers of
			 infectious agents are destroyed.
(1)
			 "Concurrent disinfection" means the immediate disinfection and disposal of body
			 discharges, and the immediate disinfection or destruction of all infected or
			 presumably infected materials.
(2)
			 "Terminal disinfection" means the process of rendering the personal clothing
			 and immediate physical environment of a patient free from the probability of
			 conveying an infectious agent to others after removal of the patient or at a
			 time when the patient is no longer a source of infection.