For purposes of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or require a different meaning. Undefined terms shall have the meaning prescribed to them by 410 IAC 1 et seq. In addition to or to otherwise supplement or to conveniently provide definitions for interpretation, this chapter shall include the following definitions.
BOARD. The City of Fishers Board of Health.
CARRIER. A person who harbors a specific infectious agent without discernible clinical disease and serves as a potential source of infection.
CASE. A person who harbors a communicable disease, usually in the presence of discernible clinical disease, symptoms, or signs and may serve as a potential source of infection. Specific case definitions will be as defined in the most recent publication of Case Conditions Under Public Health Surveillance, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Recommendations and Reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and are incorporated by reference into this rule.
COMMUNICABLE DISEASE. An illness due to a specific infectious agent or its toxic products that arises through transmission of that agent or its products from an infected person, animal, arthropod, or inanimate reservoir to a susceptible host, either directly or indirectly, through an intermediate plant or animal host, vector, or the inanimate environment.
CONTACT. A person or animal that has been in association with an infected person or animal, or a contaminated environment that is likely to provide an opportunity to acquire the infection.
DEPARTMENT. The Fishers Health Department, and its employees.
EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES. Disease that may arise suddenly and/or unexpectedly, including disease caused by antibiotic-resistant organisms.
HEALTH CARE WORKER. A person who provides services whether as an individual health care provider, volunteer, or student at or employee of a health care facility.
HEALTH OFFICER. The Health Officer of the Health Department and his/her authorized representatives.
HIGH RISK SEXUAL CONDUCT. Unprotected sex with an individual or a group of individuals with multiple partners that increases risk of STI transmission or unwanted pregnancy.
LATENT TUBERCULOSIS INFECTION (LTBI). Infection with the tubercle bacillus (the causative agent of tuberculosis) as evidenced by a positive tuberculin skin test but having no evidence of active tuberculosis disease (i.e., clinical, radiological, and/or microbiological).
MEDICAL LABORATORY. An entity that engages in the biological, microbiological, serological, chemical, immunohematological, radioimmunological, hematological, cytological, pathological, or other examination of materials derived from the human body for the detection, diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of any disease, infection, or impairment, or the assessment of human health.
OUTBREAK. Cases of disease occurring in a community, region, or particular population at a rate clearly in excess of that which is normally expected.
QUARANTINE. The restriction of the activities or confinement of well persons or animals who have, or may have been exposed to a case of communicable disease during its period of communicability to prevent disease transmission during the incubation period, if infection should occur.
RESTRICTION OF ACTIVITIES. Limitations placed on the activities of persons with disease or infection to prevent transmission of communicable diseases to other individuals.
SERIOUS AND PRESENT DANGER TO HEALTH. One or more of the following:
(1) Repeated behavior by a carrier or case that has been demonstrated epidemiologically to transmit, or evidences a careless disregard for the transmission of the disease to others;
(2) A substantial likelihood that a carrier or case will repeatedly transmit the disease to others as is evidenced by that individual's past behavior, or by statements of the individual that are credible indicators of the individual's intention;
(3) Affirmative misrepresentation by a carrier of his or her carrier status prior to engaging in any behavior that has been epidemiologically demonstrated to transmit the disease; or
(4) Failure or refusal to carry out the carrier's or case's duty to warn under IC 16-41-7-1.
SUSPECT CASE. A person whose medical history, signs, and symptoms suggest that this person may be incubating or may be actively infected with some communicable disease.
(Ord. 061520A, passed 7-20-20)