Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 58 > Chapter 31e - Nurse Licensure Compact - Revised

• Communicable disease: means illness due to a specific infectious agent or its toxic products which arises through transmission of that agent or its products from a reservoir to a susceptible host, either directly, as from an infected individual or animal, or indirectly, through an intermediate plant or animal host, vector, or the inanimate environment. See Utah Code 26B-7-201
• Epidemic: means the occurrence or outbreak in a community or region of cases of an illness clearly in excess of normal expectancy and derived from a common or propagated source. See Utah Code 26B-7-201
• Infectious disease: means a disease of man or animals resulting from an infection. See Utah Code 26B-7-201
• Local health department: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26A-1-102. See Utah Code 26B-1-102
• Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5