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121. The health authority, for purposes of this subchapter [these see-
tions], may be:
(A) a local health authority appointed by the local gov-
ernment jurisdiction; or
(B) a regional director of the Department of State
Health Services if no physician has been appointed by the local
government.
(16) [(14)] Hospital laboratory--Any laboratory that per-
forms laboratory test procedures for a patient of a hospital either as
a part of the hospital or through contract with the hospital.
(17) [(5)] Notifiable condition--Any disease or condition
that is required to be reported under the Act or by this chapter [these
sections]. See 97.3 of this title (relating to What Condition to [Te]
Report and What Isolates to Report or Submit). Any outbreak, exotic
disease, or unusual group expression of illness which may be of public
health concern, whether or not the disease involved is listed in 97.3
of this title, shall be considered a "notifiable condition."[.] The term
"notifiable condition" is the same as the term "reportable disease" as
used in the Health and Safety Code.
(18) [(46)] Outbreak--See definition of epidemic in this
section.
(19) Pandemic--A global disease epidemic or an epidemic
that crosses international borders and affects an extremely large number
of people.
(20) [(1-7)] Perinatal hepatitis B infection--HBsAg positiv-
ity in any infant aged >1-24 months.
(21) [(48)] Physician--A person licensed by the Texas
Medical Board to practice medicine in Texas.
(22) [(19)] Physician assistant--A person licensed as a
physician assistant by the Texas Physician Assistant Board.
(23) [(24)] Regional director--The physician who is the
chief administrative officer of a region as designated by the department
under the Local Public Health Reorganization Act, Health and Safety
Code, Chapter 121.
(24) [(21)] Report--Information that is required to be pro-
vided to the department.
(25) [2)] Report of a disease--The notification to the ap-
propriate authority of the occurrence of a specific communicable dis-
ease in man or animals, including all information required by the pro-
cedures established by the department.
(26) [(23)] Research facility--A facility that is licensed by
the United States Department of Agriculture to use vertebrate animals
for research purposes and is in compliance with the federal Animal
Welfare Act (7 U.S.C., Chapter 54).
(27) [(24)] School Administrator--The city or county su-
perintendent of schools or the principal of any school not under the
jurisdiction of a city or county board of education.
(28) [9-)] Significant risk--A determination relating to a
human exposure to an etiologic agent for a particular disease, based on
reasonable medical judgments given the state of medical knowledge,
relating to the following:
(A) nature of the risk (how the disease is transmitted);
(B) duration of the risk (how long an infected person
may be infectious);(C) severity of the risk (what is the potential harm to
others); and
(D) probability the disease will be transmitted and will
cause varying degrees of harm.
(29) [(26)] Specimen Submission Form--A current Depart-
ment of State Health Services laboratory specimen submission form
available from the Department of State Health Services, Laboratory
Services Section, 1100 West 49th Street, Austin, Texas, 78756-3199.
(30) [(27)] Vancomycin-intermediate resistant Staphylo-
coccus aureus (VISA)--Staphylococcus aureus with a vancomycin
minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of 4 g/mL through 8
g/mL.
(31) [(28)] Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
(VRSA)--Staphylococcus aureus with a vancomycin MIC of 16
g/mL or greater.
(32) [(29)] Veterinarian--A person licensed by the Texas
State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners to practice veterinary
medicine in Texas.
97.2. Who Shall Report.
(a) A physician, dentist, veterinarian, chiropractor, advanced
practice nurse, physician assistant, or person permitted by law to at-
tend a pregnant woman during gestation or at the delivery of an infant
shall report, as required by these sections, each patient (person or ani-
mal) he or she shall examine and who has or is suspected of having any
notifiable condition, and shall report any outbreak, exotic disease, or
unusual group expression of illness of any kind whether or not the dis-
ease is known to be communicable or reportable. An employee from
the clinic or office staff may be designated to serve as the reporting
officer. A physician, dentist, veterinarian, advanced practice nurse,
physician assistant, or chiropractor who can assure that a designated
or appointed person from the clinic or office is regularly reporting ev-
ery occurrence of these diseases or health conditions in their clinic or
office does not have to submit a duplicate report.
(b) - (h) (No change.)
97.3. What Condition to Report and What Isolates to Report or Sub-
mit.
(a) Humans.
(1) Identification of notifiable conditions.
(A) A summary list of notifiable conditions and report-
ing time frames is published on the Department of State Health Services
web site at http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/idcu/. Copies are filed in the
Emerging and Acute Infectious Disease [Infectious Disease Surveil-
lance and Apidem]iolog] Branch, Department of State Health Services,
1100 West 49th Street, Austin, Texas 78756.
(B) (No change.)
(2) Notifiable conditions or isolates.
(A) Confirmed and suspected human cases of the fol-
lowing diseases/infections are reportable: acquired immune deficiency
syndrome (AIDS); amebiasis; amebic meningitis and encephalitis;
anaplasmosis; anthrax; arboviral infections caused by California
serogroup virus, Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus, Powassan
virus, St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) virus, Western equine encephalitis
(WEE) virus, and West Nile (WN) virus; babesiosis; botulism-adult
and infant; brucellosis; campylobacteriosis; Chagas' disease; chan-
croid; chickenpox (varicella); Chlamydia trachomatis infection;
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD); cryptosporidiosis; cyclosporiasis;37 TexReg 6460 August 24, 2012 Texas Register
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