New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Chapter I - State Sanitary Code
Part 2 - Communicable Diseases
Investigations and Determinations
Section 2.5 - Physician to submit specimens for laboratory examination in cases or suspected cases of certain communicable diseases
A physician in attendance on a person affected with or suspected of being affected with any of the diseases mentioned in this section shall submit to an approved laboratory, or to the laboratory of the State Department of Health, for examination of such specimens as may be designated by the State Commissioner of Health, together with data concerning the history and clinical manifestations pertinent to the examination:
Anthrax
Babesiosis
Botulism
Brucellosis
Campylobacteriosis
Chlamydia trachomatis infection
Cholera
Congenital rubella syndrome
Conjunctivitis, purulent, of the newborn (28 days of age or less)
Cryptosporidiosis
Cyclosporiasis
Diphtheria
E. coli 0157:H7 infections
Ehrlichiosis
Giardiasis
Glanders
Gonococcal infection
Group A Streptococcal invasive disease
Group B Streptococcal invasive disease
Hantavirus disease
Hemophilus influenzae (invasive disease)
Hemolytic uremic syndrome
Herpes infection in infants aged 60 days or younger (neonatal)
Legionellosis
Listeriosis
Malaria
Melioidosis
Meningitis
Hemophilus
Meningococcal
Meningococcemia
Mpox
Plague
Poliomyelitis
Q Fever
Rabies
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Salmonellosis
Severe or novel coronavirus
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), including Pediatric Multi-system Inflammatory Syndrome, or any other complication suspected of being associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)
Other (specify type)
Shigellosis
Smallpox
Staphylococcal enterotoxin B poisoning
Streptococcus pneumoniae invasive
Syphilis
Tuberculosis
Tularemia
Typhoid
Viral hemorrhagic fever
Yellow Fever
Yersiniosis
