Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Health Services › DHS 110-199 - Health › Chapter DHS 145 - Control Of Communicable Diseases › Subchapter I - General Provisions › Section DHS 145.07 - Special disease control measures

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) SCHOOLS AND DAY
				  CARE CENTERS. Any teacher, principal, director or nurse serving a school or day
				  care center may send home, for the purpose of diagnosis and treatment, any
				  pupil suspected of having a communicable disease or of having any other disease
				  or condition having the potential to affect the health of other students and
				  staff including but not limited to pediculosis and scabies. The teacher,
				  principal, director or nurse authorizing the action shall ensure that the
				  parent, guardian or other person legally responsible for the child or other
				  adult with whom the child resides and the nurse serving the child's school or
				  day care center are immediately informed of the action. A teacher who sends a
				  pupil home shall also notify the principal or director of the action.
(2) PERSONAL CARE. Home health agency
				  personnel providing personal care in the home and persons providing personal
				  care in health care facilities, day care centers and other comparable
				  facilities shall refrain from providing care while they are able to transmit a
				  communicable disease through the provision of that care, in accord with the
				  methods of communicable disease control contained in official guidance of the
				  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, unless specified otherwise by the
				  state epidemiologist.
Note:
The official guidance of the Centers for
					 Disease Control and Prevention entitled, "Guideline for Infection Control in
					 Health Care Personnel, 1998," is on file in the Department's Division of Public
					 Health and the Legislative Reference Bureau, and may be found in the
American Journal of Infection Control
, vol. 26, 1998, pp.
					 289-354.
(3) FOOD HANDLERS.
				  Food handlers shall refrain from handling food while they have a disease in a
				  form that is communicable by food handling, in accord with the methods of
				  communicable disease control contained in the official report of the American
				  Public Health Association, unless specified otherwise by the state
				  epidemiologist.
Note:
The official report of the American
					 Public Health Association entitled
Control of Communicable Disease
					 Manual
, 20th edition (2015), edited by David L. Heymann, is on file in
					 the Department's Division of Public Health and the Legislative Reference
					 Bureau, and is available for purchase from the American Public Health
					 Association, Publication Sales, PO Box 933019, Atlanta, GA
					 31193-3019.
(4) PREVENTION
				  OF OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM. The attending physician or midwife shall ensure
				  placement of 2 drops of a one percent solution of silver nitrate, or a 1-2
				  centimeter ribbon of an ophthalmic ointment containing 0.5% erythromycin or one
				  percent tetracycline, in each eye of a newborn child as soon as possible after
				  delivery but not later than one hour after delivery. No more than one newborn
				  child may be treated from an individual container.