South Dakota Administrative Rules
Title 44 - Department of Health
Article 44:20 - Communicable Disease Control
Chapter 44:20:02 - Reporting and surveillance
Section 44:20:02:08 - Disclosure of reports
Current through Register Vol. 50, page 114, March 25, 2024
The department may disclose or authorize the disclosure of reportable disease and condition information, limited to that necessary to provide medical care to a person or to prevent the further transmission of a reportable disease or condition. The following may receive confidential, pertinent, reportable disease or condition information:
(1) Physicians and health care workers for whom the information is necessary to proceed with medical treatment;
(2) Institutions whose employees or clients may pose a risk to the public's health;
(3) Review panels convened or authorized by the department regarding HIV-infected physicians or health care workers;
(4) Agencies of the U.S. Public Health Services, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Indian Health Services, and other local, state, tribal, and territorial health agencies;
(5) Agencies or persons receiving donated blood, organs, tissues, or body fluids;
(6) Researchers conducting anonymous epidemiological research;
(7) Health care workers, emergency response workers, good samaritans, and funeral directors if there has been a potentially significant exposure to the blood or body fluids of a person;
(8) School officials or administrators of child care settings if there is an exposure affecting children;
(9) Contacts of infected persons; and
(10) Health care workers needing tuberculosis information to comply with tuberculosis screening requirements.
General Authority: SDCL 34-1-17, 34-22-9, 34-22-12, 34-23-13.
Law Implemented: SDCL 34-22-9, 34-22-12, 34-22-12.1, 34-23-13.
