For the purposes of this chapter:
1. "Communicable disease" shall mean any infectious or contagious disease spread from person to person or animal to person.
2. "Isolation" shall mean the separation of persons or animals presumably or actually affected with a communicable disease or who are disease carriers for the usual period of communicability of that disease in such places, marked by placards if necessary, and under such conditions as will prevent the direct or indirect conveyance of the infectious agent to susceptible persons.
3. "Placard" shall mean a warning sign to be erected and displayed on the periphery of a quarantine area, which sign will forbid entry to or exit from the area.
4. "Quarantinable disease" shall mean any communicable disease designated by rule adopted by the Iowa department of public health as requiring quarantine or isolation to prevent its spread.
5. "Quarantine" shall mean the limitation of freedom of movement of persons or animals that have been exposed to a communicable disease within specified limits marked by placards for a period of time equal to the longest usual incubation period of the disease in such manner as to prevent the spread of a communicable disease which affects people.
6. "Reportable disease" shall mean any disease designated by rule adopted by the Iowa department of public health requiring the occurrence to be reported to an appropriate authority.
[S13, § 2571-a; SS15, § 2571-1a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 2247; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 139.1; 81 Acts, ch 62, § 1, 2]
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