Communicable disease means an illness due to a specific disease producing agent (virus, bacteria, etc.) or its toxic products which arises through transmission of that agent, or its products, from an infected person, animal, or other reservoir to a susceptible host--either directly as from an infected person or animal, or indirectly through the agency of an intermediate plant or animal host, vector or the inanimate environment.
Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 22, § 79515
Note: Authority cited: Sections 208(a) and 1267.10(a), Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections 1250(j) and 1254, Health and Safety Code.