# COMAR Title 10 — Maryland Department of Health

## Subtitle 06 — Diseases

### Chapter 01 — Communicable Diseases and Related Conditions of Public Health Importance

#### Regulation .14 Rabies.

*COMAR 10.06.01.14*

A. Control of a Case (Human). A health care provider shall apply contact isolation to the case for the period of communicability.

B. Control of Contacts. A health officer or health care provider shall evaluate individually a close contact or hospital contact to determine the need for post-exposure rabies prophylaxis. A health care provider shall warn an immediate attendant of the hazard of infection.

C. Infection Control. A health care provider shall practice contact isolation.

D. Confinement or Examination of Animals. A health officer or the Maryland Public Health Veterinarian shall direct the quarantine, examination, control, and disposition of any animal that bites or otherwise potentially exposes a human to rabies, according to COMAR 10.06.02.