Pandemic Influenza Plan - Questar III

Appendix 2-A
• Surveillance Criteria:
o Clinical Criteria:
Novel Influenza Surveillance and Reporting Criteria*
• Severe illness: Hospitalized with severe ILI, including pneumonia or ARDS
• Mild illness:
♦ Fever (temperature > 38° C or 100.4° F) and
♦ One or more of the following: sore throat, cough, or dyspnea
o Epidemiologic Criteria:
• Travel Risk (within 10 days of symptom onset)
♦ Visited or lived in an area affected by highly pathogenic avian influenza A
outbreaks in domestic poultry or where a human case of novel influenza
has been confirmed.
♦ Had direct contact with poultry, in an area affected by highly pathogenic
avian influenza A. Direct contact with poultry is defined as touching well,
sick, or dead birds, poultry feces or contaminated surfaces, or consuming
uncooked poultry.
♦ Had close contact (within 3 feet) with a person with confirmed or
suspected novel influenza.
• Occupational Risk (within 10 days of symptom onset)
♦ Work on a farm or in a live poultry market or process or handle poultry
infected with known or suspected avian influenza viruses.
♦ Work in a laboratory that contains live animal, bird or novel human
influenza viruses.
♦ Healthcare worker in direct contact with suspected or confirmed novel
influenza case.
• During the Interpandemic and Pandemic Alert Periods and No Evidence of
HPAI or Other Novel Influenza Virus in NYS: Patients meeting the following
clinical and epidemiologic criteria should be reported immediately to the local health
department:
o Severe illness AND, within 10 days of onset, either: travel to an affected area
(even if no direct contact with poultry or suspect or confirmed human cases) or
occupational risk.
o Mild illness AND, and within 10 days of onset, one of the following: direct
contact with ill poultry in an affected area, close contact with a suspected or
confirmed human case of novel influenza, or occupational risk.
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