Page 15 - Federal Law No. (14) of 2014 Concerning the Prevention of Communicable Diseases

Table No. (2)
Duration of Isolation of the Infected Persons and Duration of Quarantine or Isolation of
Contacts

Disease Duration of Isolation of the Infected Duration of Quarantine or Isolation
Persons of Contacts

Plague a. Bubonic Plague: - Household and other close contacts
(In case there is no cough and the chest of a pneumonic plague patient are
x-ray is negative), the drainage and kept under observation for a period
secretions precautions shall be taken of 7 days, while being given a
for the 48-hour period after the start of preventive medicine.
the effective treatment. - In the event of rejection of the
b. Pneumonic Plague: preventive medicine, strict isolation
Applying strict isolation along with and close monitoring shall be
taking the precautions for infection applied for 7 days.
transmission through air for 48 hours
after ending the appropriate treatment
accompanied by good clinical
response.
Cholera - Hospital isolation for severe cases Monitor the patient's contacts who share
along with taking all intestinal food and drink with him/ her for 5 days
precautions until the symptoms are since the last exposure, and making sure
cleared. that their stool bacterial lab tests are
- No strict isolation is required. negative.
Yellow - Stay the first six days of sickness in
Fever a room protected from mosquitoes.
- Take precautions regarding blood
supply and body fluids
Typhus Isolation is not necessary after carrying - Monitoring contacts for two weeks.
out the appropriate delousing of all - Impose quarantine, if possible, on
clothing and housing of patients and contacts infected with lice for 15
household contacts. days after using the appropriate
insecticide.
Diphtheria - Two weeks after recovery and the Until the result of cultures of the
period may be shortened if the laboratory examinations are found to be
culture of the throat and nose negative, food handlers (especially
secretions are found to be negative dairy products) who are very close to the
in the laboratory examination, to be infected person and those in contact
taken within an interval of twenty- with the patient who are at the same time
four hours, (provided that the first in contact with children unvaccinated
examination is at least 24 hours against the disease.
after the end of the antimicrobial
treatment).

*In case of any misinterpretation, the Arabic version of this legislation prevails.