CONTAGIOUS OR INFECTIOUS DISEASES

See also BACTERIA; DISEASES

Acanthamoeba, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

AIDS, see ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS)

Airborne infectious agents or biological toxins, weapons of mass destruction, Minn. Statutes 2024 609.712

Animal diseases, see ANIMAL DISEASES

Anthrax, see ANTHRAX

Anthrax, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Arboviral diseases, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Avian influenza, Minn. Rules 1721.0350

Babesiosis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Bakery personnel, restrictions, Minn. Rules 1550.1520, 1550.1530

Balamuthia, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Barbers, barber schools, and barbershops, serving persons afflicted with contagious or infectious disease, Minn. Statutes 2024 154.25

Blastomycosis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Bloodborne diseases

Definitions, Dentistry Board, Minn. Rules 3100.0100

Generally, see BLOODBORNE PATHOGENS

Hepatitis B virus (HBV), Minn. Rules 3100.0100, 4604.0800

HIV, see HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV)

Bloodborne diseases, generally, see BLOODBORNE PATHOGENS

Bluegreen algae poisoning, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Boards of health, duties, Minn. Rules 4735.0120

Botulism

Clostridum botulinum, TCS foods defined as supporting, Minn. Rules 4626.0020

Defined as foodborne disease outbreak, food code, Minn. Rules 4626.0020

Reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Botulism, weapons of mass destruction, Minn. Statutes 2024 609.712

Brucellosis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Campylobacteriosis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Candida auris, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Capnocytophaga canimorsus, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB), reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE), reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Carbapenemase-producing carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (CP-CRPA), reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Carriers

Health directives, service on, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.4172

Health threats to others

Cost of care, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.4185

Court records, disclosure, protective orders, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.4186

Defined, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.4172

Emergency hold, see Health threats to others under HEALTH DEPARTMENT

Tuberculosis, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.4802

Human services data, disclosure, Minn. Statutes 2024 13.46

Noncompliant behavior, lawsuits, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.4173, 144.4174

Carriers, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7060, 4605.7100

Cat scratch disease, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Chancroid

Health education, Minn. Rules 4605.7800

Reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040, 4605.7700

Chickenpox, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Chikungunya, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Child care centers, Minn. Rules 9503.0005 to 9503.0170

Chlamydia trachomatis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040, 4605.7700

Cholera, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Clinical materials

Defined, Minn. Rules 4605.7000

Submission modifications, Minn. Rules 4605.7041

Coccidiomycosis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Communicable diseases, disclosure, foster care placements, Minn. Statutes 2024 142B.50, 245A.156

Confirmed disease outbreaks, defined, Minn. Rules 4626.0020

Contact notification program, contact data, use as evidence, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.4184

Control, see Prevention and control under this topic

Convicted persons, treatment, rulemaking, limitations, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.12

COVID-19, see COVID-19

Cronobacter sakazakii, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Cryptosporidiosis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Cyanotoxin poisoning, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Cyclosporiasis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Cytomegalovirus (congenital), reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Data, public health data, classification, Minn. Statutes 2024 13.3805

Deadly infectious diseases, business practices facilitating, regulation, Minn. Statutes 2024 145A.06

Definitions

Acupuncture practitioners, Minn. Statutes 2024 147B.01

Health threat procedures, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.4172

Occupational Safety and Health Act, Minn. Statutes 2024 182.651

Definitions, food code, Minn. Rules 4626.0020

Dengue virus infection, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Diphtheria, Minn. Statutes 2024 121A.15, 135A.14

Child care and elementary schools, Minn. Rules 4604.0430

Grades 7 through 12, Minn. Rules 4604.1010

Reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Disclosure, communicable diseases, foster care placements, Minn. Statutes 2024 142B.50, 245A.156

Disease data collection, Minn. Rules 4735.0110

Diseased food workers, Minn. Statutes 2024 31.171

Drug resistance, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7050

E. coli, see ENTERIC ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION

Ebola virus, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Ehrlichiosis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Emergencies

Public health response contingency account, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.4199

Vaccination, mass dispensing, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.4198, 151.37

Employees

Fish processing establishments, Minn. Rules 1545.3120

Slaughter houses, Minn. Rules 1545.2010

Employees, discrimination, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.4196

Encephalitis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Enteric escherichia coli infection, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Epidemics

Open Meeting Law, Minn. Statutes 2024 13D.021

Pandemics, Minn. Statutes 2024 142B.10, 245A.04

Prisons

Conditional release, Minn. Statutes 2024 244.05

Transfer of prisoners from correctional facilities, Minn. Statutes 2024 243.57

Public health response contingency account, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.4199

School districts, pupil counts, effect on, Minn. Statutes 2024 126C.05

Equine encephalitis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Executive Council, powers, Minn. Statutes 2024 9.061

Exposing person, Minn. Statutes 2024 145.36

Federal regulations, incorporation by reference, dental offices, infection control, Minn. Rules 3100.6300

Food and beverage service establishments

Foodborne disease prevention, Minn. Rules 4626.0030 to 4626.0050

Notice requirements, Minn. Rules 4626.1795

Foodborne diseases

Botulism, see Botulism under this topic

Contagious or infectious diseases, Minn. Rules 4626.0030 to 4626.0050

Salmonella, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Gastrointestinal illnesses, food employees, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4626.0040

Giardiasis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Glanders, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Gonorrhea, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Haemophilus influenza type B, child care and school enrollment, vaccination, Minn. Statutes 2024 121A.15

Haemophilus influenza type B, vaccination, school and child care enrollment, Minn. Rules 4604.0500

Haemophilus influenzae, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Hantavirus infection, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Hard tick relapsing fever, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

HBV, see HEPATITIS

Health commissioner, agreements with local boards, Minn. Rules 4735.0110

Hemolytic uremic syndrome, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Hepatitis, see HEPATITIS

Histoplasmosis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

HIV, see HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV)

Hospitals, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.12, 145A.07

Hotels, summer hotels, prevention and control, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.12

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), infection, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Industrial solid waste land disposal facilities, unacceptable deposits, infectious waste, Minn. Rules 7035.1700

Infection control

Definitions, Dentistry Board, Minn. Rules 3100.0100

Dental offices, Minn. Rules 3100.6300

Infectious waste, see INFECTIOUS WASTE

Influenza

Avian influenza, Minn. Rules 1721.0360

Haemophilus influenza type B, Minn. Statutes 2024 121A.15

Pandemics, public health response contingency account, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.4199

Reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Vaccine, administering, Minn. Statutes 2024 150A.055, 151.01

Investigations

Community health boards, Minn. Statutes 2024 145A.06, 145A.07

Home care service, exclusion, Minn. Statutes 2024 144A.43

Isolation, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.419, 144.4195, 144.4196

Jails, Minn. Rules 2911.3700, 2911.7000

Jamestown Canyon virus, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Jaundice, food employees, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4626.0040

Juvenile detention centers, see JUVENILE DETENTION CENTERS

Kawasaki disease, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Kingella species, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Knowing transfer

Criminal penalties, Minn. Statutes 2024 609.2232, 609.2241

Defenses, Minn. Statutes 2024 609.2241

LaCrosse encephalitis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Lassa fever, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Lawsuits, carriers, noncompliant behavior, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.4173, 144.4174

Legionellosis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Leprosy, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Leptospirosis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Liability, cost of treatment, persons under control of community health boards, Minn. Statutes 2024 145A.08

License-exempt child care centers, health and safety requirements, Minn. Statutes 2024 142C.11

Listeriosis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Lyme disease, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Lyme disease, treatment, coverage, Minn. Statutes 2024 62A.265

Malaria, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Measles, Minn. Statutes 2024 121A.15, 135A.14

Measles, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Melioidosis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Meningitis, postsecondary schools, notice to students, Minn. Statutes 2024 135A.14

Meningococca, disease, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Minn. Statutes 2024 144.585

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome related to COVID-19, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Mumps, Minn. Statutes 2024 121A.15, 135A.14

Mumps, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Municipal lockups, procedures, Minn. Rules 2945.5460, 2945.5470

Naegleria fowleri, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Neonatal sepsis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Nursing homes, see NURSING HOMES

Occupational diseases, see OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES AND ILLNESSES

Ophthalmia neonatorum, Minn. Rules 4605.7900

Orthopox virus, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Persons with

Cold storage warehouse employees, Minn. Rules 1550.2250

Food salvage establishment employees, restrictions, Minn. Rules 1550.2800

Slaughter houses, employment prohibited, Minn. Rules 1540.0860

Pertussis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Plague, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Plague, weapons of mass destruction, Minn. Statutes 2024 609.712

Pneumococcal vaccine, Minn. Statutes 2024 151.01

Polio, Minn. Statutes 2024 121A.15

Poliomyelitis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Vaccination requirements, child care programs or schools, Minn. Rules 4604.0420

Powassan virus, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Prevention and control

Community health boards, Minn. Statutes 2024 145A.04, 145A.06, 145A.07

Costs, persons under community health board control, Minn. Statutes 2024 145A.08

Defined, Minn. Statutes 2024 147B.01

Drugs and medicine, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.4197, 144.4198, 151.37, 256B.0625

Health Department, duties, Minn. Statutes 2024 151.37

Home care providers, Minn. Statutes 2024 144A.4798

Home care service, exclusion, Minn. Statutes 2024 144A.43

Hospices, Minn. Rules 4664.0470

Hospitals, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.585

Isolation, bioterrorism, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.419, 144.4195

Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Minn. Statutes 2024 144.585

Minnesota sexual psychopathic personality treatment center, staff training, Minn. Rules 9515.3070

Personal care assistance provider agencies, Minn. Statutes 2024 256B.0659

Quarantine, see same under this topic

Summer hotels, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.12

Prisoners, epidemics, transfers from correctional facilities, Minn. Statutes 2024 243.57

Psittacosis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Public health emergencies and hazards

Notification, Minn. Rules 4735.0110, 4735.0120

Student loan forbearance, Minn. Rules 4850.0017

Public health response contingency account, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.4199

Public rallies, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.12, 145A.07

Q fever, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Quarantine

Common carriers, Health Department, duties, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.14

Employees, discrimination, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.4196

National security or peacetime emergencies, Minn. Statutes 2024 12.39

Procedure, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.419, 144.4195

Public health response contingency fund, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.4199

Rulemaking, generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.12

Rabies, see RABIES

Rat-bite fever, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Reporting, investigating, and controlling

Acquired outside the state, Minn. Rules 4605.7060

Application of rules, Minn. Rules 4605.7020

Child care facilities, Minn. Rules 4605.7070

Children's camps, Minn. Rules 4605.7070

Definitions, Minn. Rules 4605.7000

Disease reports, distribution, Minn. Rules 4605.7300

Enumeration of disease type, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Generally, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Health boards, Minn. Rules 4605.7100

Health care facilities, Minn. Rules 4605.7030

Health care practitioner, Minn. Rules 4605.7030

Health Department, Minn. Rules 4605.7100

Hospices, Minn. Rules 4664.0480

Hospitals, Minn. Rules 4605.7030

Infection preventionist, designation, Minn. Rules 4605.7030

Information required, Minn. Rules 4605.7090

Investigations by commissioner, Minn. Rules 4605.7500

Isolation, Minn. Rules 4605.7400

Jails, Minn. Rules 2911.3700

Medical laboratories, Minn. Rules 4605.7030

New diseases and syndromes, Minn. Rules 4605.7080

Noncompliance, Minn. Rules 4605.7400

Prevention, Minn. Rules 4605.7400

Purpose of rules, Minn. Rules 4605.7010

Schools, Minn. Rules 4605.7070

Statewide summary information, Minn. Rules 4605.7200

Suspected cases, Minn. Rules 4605.7050

Tuberculosis, special requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7075

Unexplained deaths, reporting, Minn. Rules 4605.7050

Unusual case incidence, Minn. Rules 4605.7050

Veterinarians, Minn. Rules 4605.7030

Reports about

Community health boards, duties, Minn. Statutes 2024 145A.04, 145A.07

Food workers, Minn. Statutes 2024 31.171

Research, see EPIDEMIOLOGY

Resorts, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.12, 145A.07

Retrovirus infections, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Rubella, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Salmonellosis

Reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Salmonella species

Food service employees or applicants, reporting requirements and work restrictions, Minn. Rules 4626.0040, 4626.0045

TCS foods defined as supporting, Minn. Rules 4626.0020

Salvage food establishments, employees, prohibited, Minn. Rules 1550.2800

Sappinia, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

SARS, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Sentinel surveillance

Definitions, Minn. Rules 4605.7000

Generally, Minn. Rules 4605.7046

Severe acute respiratory syndrome, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Sexually transmitted diseases, see SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES

Sexually transmitted diseases, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040, 4605.7700

Shigella species, see SHIGELLOSIS

Shingles, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Smallpox, see SMALLPOX

Smallpox, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Spotted fever rickettsiosis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

St. Louis encephalitis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Staphylococcus aureus, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Staphylococcus infections, methicillin-resistant, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.585

Streptococcal disease, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Supervised living facilities, reportable diseases, Minn. Rules 4665.4000, 4665.9900

Syphilis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Teachers, discharge, suspension, or leaves of absence, Minn. Statutes 2024 122A.40, 122A.41

Testing

Home care service, exclusion, Minn. Statutes 2024 144A.43

Laboratory costs, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.123

Public health response contingency fund, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.4199

Tetanus, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Tetanus, vaccination, Minn. Statutes 2024 121A.15, 135A.14

Tourist camps, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.12, 145A.07

Toxic shock syndrome, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Toxoplasmosis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Transmission

Bedding, secondhand materials, Minn. Statutes 2024 325F.30, 325F.31

Bulk food dispensers, rulemaking, Minn. Statutes 2024 31.874

Knowing transfer, Minn. Statutes 2024 609.2232, 609.2241

Treatment, see Prevention and control under this topic

Trichinosis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Tuberculosis, see TUBERCULOSIS

Tularemia, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Tularemia, weapons of mass destruction, Minn. Statutes 2024 609.712

Typhus, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Vaccination, see VACCINATION

Varicella, reporting, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Variola, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Veterinarians, guidelines regarding, Minn. Rules 9100.0200

Vibrio species, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Water haulers, Minn. Rules 4720.4200

West Nile virus, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Wildlife exhibits

Facilities and operating standards, Minn. Rules 6244.2700

Generally, Minn. Rules 6244.2800

Yellow fever, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Yersiniosis, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Zika, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040

Zika virus, awareness, testing, surveillance, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.945

Zoster, reporting requirements, Minn. Rules 4605.7040