PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                             Ch. 103

Article - Health - General

18-205.

(a) (1) The director of a medical laboratory shall submit a report to the health
officer for the county where the laboratory is located within 48 hours after an examination
of a specimen from a human body shows evidence of any of the following:

(i) Gonorrhea.

(ii) Viral hepatitis type A.

(iii) Viral hepatitis type B.

(iv) Haemophilus meningitis.

(v) Meningococcal meningitis.

(vi) Streptococcus meningitis type A.

(vii) Streptococcus meningitis type B.

(viii) Viral meningitis.

(ix) Meningococcemia.

(x) Typhoid or nontyphoid salmonellosis.

(xi) Syphilis.

(xii) Tuberculosis.

(xiii) Human immunodeficiency virus infection.

(xiv) CD 4+ count, if less than 200/MM3.

(xv) Chlamydia infection.

(XVI)  CRYPTO SPORIDOSIS.

(XVII) E COLI 0157: H7 INFECTION.
(XVIII) LYME DISEASE.

(XIX) PERTUSSIS.

(XX)  ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER.

(XXI) SHIGELLOSIS.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1996.

Approved April 30, 1996.

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