As used in this article:
(a) Communicable Disease includes any of the following diseases or conditions which are dangerous to public health:

(1) Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
(AIDS)

(2) Amebiasis (amoebic dysentery); (3) Anthrax;
(4) Brucellosis (undulant fever); (5) Chancroid;
(6) Chickenpox; (7) Cholera;
(8) Clonorchiasis (liver-fluke);

(9) Conjunctivitis, acute infectious (pink eye); (10) Dengue;
(11) Diarrhea of newborn (epidemic infantile); (12) Diphtheria;
(13) Encephalitis, primary (infectious); (14) Erysipelas;
(15) Favus; (16) Filariasis;
(17) Fish (ciguatera) poisoning; (18) Fish (scombroid) poisoning; (19) Glanders (farcy);
(20) Gonorrhea;

(21) Gonorrheal ophthalmia; (22) Granuloma inguinale; (23) Hepatitis A (Infectious)
(24) HIV-seropositive condition;
(25) Hepatitis B (Serum); (26) Hookworm disease;
(27) Impetigo contagious (in institution); (28) Influenza;
(29) Kerato-Conjunctivitis (Infectious); (30) Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease);
(31) Leptospirosis (Weil’s disease or hemorrhagic jaundice);

(32) Malaria;

(33) Measles (rubeola); (34) Melioidosis
(35) Meningitis, aseptic;

(36) Meningitis, cerebrospinal (meningococcic); (37) Meningitis, other infectious;
(38) Mononucleosis, infectious; (39) Mumps;
(40) Paratyphoid fever;

(41) Pertussis (whooping cough); (42) Plague;
(43) Poliomyelitis, acute anterior (infantile paralysis);

(44) Psittacosis-ornithosis; (45) Puerperal septicemia; (46) Rabies;
(47) Relapsing fever;

(48) Rheumatic fever (active); (49) Rickettsial disease;
(50) Ringworm of the scalp (tinea capitis);(51) Rubella (German measles); (52) Salmonellosis;
(53) Scabies;

(54) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) (55) Scarlet Fever;
(56) Septic sore throat (streptococcus); (57) Shigellosis (bacillary dysentery); (58) Smallpox;
(59) Syphilis; (60) Tetanus; (61) Trachoma; (62) Trichinosis;
(63) Tuberculosis (pulmonary);

(64) Tuberculosis (other than pulmonary); (65) Tularemia;
(66 Typhoid fever; (67) Typhus fever; (68) Yaws;
(69) Yellow fever

(70) Any other disease deemed by the Director to be dangerous to the public health may be added by regulation.

(71) In the event of any severe communicable disease with pandemic potential which is identified and declared by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to be critically dangerous to public health and safety, and CDC mandates, directives, instructions and protocol criteria are being implemented in a national effort to combat the spread of the disease, the disease shall be immediately added,
and shall not require prior promulgation by regulation as a requisite for inclusion when time is of the essence in ensuring the health and safety of the public. Subsequent promulgation by regulation may follow when practicable.

(b) Isolation means the separation of persons suffering a communicable disease or carriers of such a disease from other persons for the period of communicability in such places and under such conditions as will prevent the transmission of the causative agent; and

(c) Quarantine means the limitation of freedom of movement of those who have been exposed to a communicable disease, whether a person or animal, for a period of time equal to the longest usual incubation period of the disease, in such manner as to prevent effective contacts with those not so exposed.

SOURCE: Added by P.L. 22-130:2 (May 31, 1994). New Item (a)(55) (SARS) added by P.L. 27-007:1 (Apr. 9, 2003); remaining items renumbered pursuant to P.L. 27-007:2. Subsection (a)(71) added by P.L.
32-221:3 (Dec. 20, 2014).