Regulations Related to Infectious Disease
- 28-1-1 Definitions
- Legal definitions of infectious disease terms, such as: incubation period, isolation, and quarantine.
- 28-1-2 Designation of Infectious of Contagious Diseases
- List of notifiable diseases including outbreaks and bioterrorism agents. This regulation is the basis for KDHE’s Kansas Notifiable Disease Form
- 28-1-4 Registration of Disease Prevalence
- KDHE reporting requirements specific to hospitals
- 28-1-5 General Provisions for Isolation and Quarantine of Persons Afflicted with Infectious or Contagious Diseases
- Background information on KDHE’s isolation and quarantine authority
- 28-1-6 Requirements for Isolation and Quarantine of Specific Infectious and Contagious Diseases
- Disease-specific isolation and quarantine requirements for infected persons. Special rules for students, food workers, child care facility attendees and workers, and healthcare workers are specified.
- 28-1-7 Isolation of food handlers with infectious or contagious diseases
- 28-1-12 Release from isolation or quarantine
- Information on testing for release from isolation and quarantine for specific diseases.
- 28-1-13 Rabies control
- Isolation of mammals causing exposure to rabies for observation and examination; quarantine of mammals exposed to rabies.
- 28-1-14 Rabies control in wildlife mammals
- Prohibits the sale or vaccination of skunks, raccoons, foxes, coyotes, and other wild animals known to carry rabies.
- Prohibits the sale or vaccination of skunks, raccoons, foxes, coyotes, and other wild animals known to carry rabies.
- 28-1-18 Notification of Kansas department of health and environment by laboratories of positive reaction to tests for certain diseases
- KDHE reporting requirements for laboratories