Draft Infection Control in Healthcare Personnel: Epidemiology and Control of Selected Infections Transmitted Among Healthcare Personnel and Patients: Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella-Zoster Virus Sections

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Abstract

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announces the opening of a docket to obtain comment on the Draft Infection Control in Healthcare Personnel: Epidemiology and Control of Selected Infections Transmitted Among Healthcare Personnel and Patients: Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella-Zoster Virus Sections ("Draft Guideline: Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella-Zoster Virus Sections"). The Draft Guideline: Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella-Zoster Virus Sections updates the Guideline for infection control in health care personnel, 1998 ("1998 Guideline"), Part E: Epidemiology and Control of Selected Infections Transmitted Among Health Care Personnel and Patients, and its corresponding recommendations in Part II of the 1998 Guideline: "8. Measles;" "10. Mumps;" "15. Rubella;" and "21. Varicella." The updated recommendations in the Draft Guideline: Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella-Zoster Virus Sections are intended for use by the leaders and staff of healthcare facilities and systems' Occupational Health Services (OHS), as further provided herein. These updated recommendations will help facilitate the provision of occupational infection prevention and control services to healthcare personnel (HCP) who have been exposed or infected and may be contagious to others in the workplace.