Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 51 - PUBLIC HEALTH-SANITARY CODE › Part II - The Control of Diseases › Chapter 1 - Disease Reporting Requirements › Section II-117 - Disease Control Measures Including Isolation/Quarantine [formerly paragraph 2:011]

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A.
				Individuals suspected of being cases or carriers of a communicable disease, or
				who have been exposed to a communicable disease, and who in the opinion of the
				state health officer may cause serious threat to public health, shall either
				submit to examination by a physician and to the collection of appropriate
				specimens as may be necessary or desirable in ascertaining the infectious
				status of the individual, or be placed in isolation or under quarantine as long
				as his or her status remains undetermined. Specimens collected in compliance
				with this Section shall be examined either by a state laboratory free of charge
				or by a laboratory approved by the state health officer at the individual's own
				expense.
B. [formerly paragraph
				2:014] It shall be the duty of the state health officer or his or her duly
				authorized representative to promptly institute necessary control measures
				whenever a case of communicable disease occurs.
C. [formerly paragraph 2:015] The state
				health officer or his or her duly authorized representative is hereby empowered
				and it is made his or her duty, whenever a case of communicable disease occurs
				in any household or place, and it is in his or her opinion, necessary or
				advisable that persons residing therein shall be kept from contact with the
				public, to declare the house, building, apartment, room, or place where the
				case occurs, a place of quarantine, and to require that only persons so
				authorized by the state health officer shall leave or enter said quarantined
				place during the period of quarantine.
D. [formerly paragraph 2:016] Whenever a
				disease of international or interstate epidemic significance occurs in any
				community within or outside the state of Louisiana, the state health officer
				shall, if in his or her opinion, it is necessary, proclaim and institute a
				quarantine of the locality in which the said disease prevails and shall
				formulate and publish rules and regulations to carry out such quarantine
				effectively; which rules and regulations shall have the same force and
				authority as this code and shall remain in force until rescinded by
				proclamation of the state health officer.
E. [formerly paragraph 2:017] It is a
				violation of this code for any person to enter or leave any quarantined area in
				the state of Louisiana, or to enter from any quarantined area without the state
				of Louisiana except by permission of the state health officer.
F. [formerly paragraph 2:018] No person shall
				interfere with, conceal, mutilate or tear down any notices or placard placed on
				any house, building, or premises by the state health officer. Such placards
				shall be removed only on authority of the state health officer.
G. [formerly paragraph 2:019] Whenever in the
				judgment of the state health officer, it is necessary to protect the public
				health against a serious health hazard, the state health officer may take
				complete charge of any case of communicable disease occurring therein and may
				carry on such measures to prevent its spread as he or she may believe necessary
				and as are provided for by this Code.
H. If expedited partner therapy is chosen as
				an alternative by the before mentioned physician, advanced practice registered
				nurse or physician assistant, the patient with a case of gonorrhea or chlamydia
				will be given a written document that the patient agrees to give to his or her
				sexual contact. The document will contain, but will not be limited to the
				following information.
1. The sexual contact
				should be examined and treated by a physician, advanced practice registered
				nurse or physician assistant, if at all possible.
2. The medicine or prescription for medicine
				given to the sexual contact by the patient should not be taken by the contact
				if the contact has a history of allergy to the antibiotic or to the
				pharmaceutical class of antibiotic in which case the sexual contact should be
				examined and treated by a physician, advanced practice registered nurse or
				physician assistant and offered another type of antibiotic treatment.
3. The medicine or prescription for medicine
				given to the sexual contact by the patient should not be taken by the contact
				if the contact is pregnant, in which case the sexual contact should be examined
				by a prenatal care health care provider.
4. Additionally, any pharmacist licensed to
				practice pharmacy in this state may recognize a prescription authorized by this
				section as valid, notwithstanding any other provision of law or administrative
				rule to the contrary.