[Ord. No. BH07-2015]
BOARD
Shall mean the Board of Health of the Township of Upper Freehold.
DEPARTMENT
Shall mean the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior
Services.
ISOLATION
Shall mean the physical separation and confinement of an
individual or groups of individual or groups of individuals who are
infected or reasonably believed to be infected, based on signs, symptoms
or laboratory analysis, with a contagious or possibly contagious disease
from non-isolated individuals, to prevent or limit the transmission
of the disease to non-isolated individuals.
QUARANTINABLE DISEASE
Shall mean any communicable disease which presents a risk
of serious harm to public health and which may require isolation or
quarantine to prevent its spread. The list of reportable communicable
disease are set forth at N.J.A.C. 8:57-1.5.
QUARANTINE
Shall mean the physical separation and confinement of an
individual or groups of individuals, who are or may have been exposed
to a communicable or possibly communicable disease and who do not
show signs or symptoms of a communicable disease, from unexposed individual,
to prevent or limit the transmission of the disease to unexposed individuals.