Ill. Admin. Code tit. 77, § 690.698
Tickborne Infections (Includes African Tick Bite Fever, Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Bourbon Virus, Ehrlichiosis, Heartland Virus, Lyme Disease and Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis) (Reportable by mail, telephone, facsimile, or electronically, within three days)
Effective Feb 27, 202448 Ill. Reg. 4098AUTHORITY: Implementing the Communicable Disease Report Act [745 ILCS 45] and implementing and authorized by the Department of Public Health Act [20 ILCS 2305] and the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law [20 ILCS 2310].DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
a) Control of Case
No specific restrictions.
b) Control of Contacts
No specific restrictions.
c) Laboratory Reporting
- 1) Laboratories shall report to the local health authority patients who have a positive result on any laboratory test indicative of and specific for detecting any tickborne infection.
- 2) Laboratories shall hold tickborne specimens with serologic evidence of elevated IgG or IgM antibody reactive with the suspected agent for a minimum of 30 days, and upon request by the Department or local health authority forward to the Department's laboratory clinical materials from patients who are suspected by the Department or the local health authority of having an acute tickborne infection.
(Source: Amended at 48 Ill. Reg. 4098, effective February 27, 2024)