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. (1) Physicians and health care workers for whom the information is necessary to proceed with medical treatment;
2. (2) Institutions whose employees or clients may pose a risk to the public's health;
3. (3) Review panels convened or authorized by the department regarding HIV-infected physicians or health care workers;
4. (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. (5) Agencies or persons receiving donated blood, organs, tissues, or body fluids;
6. (6) Researchers conducting anonymous epidemiological research;
7. (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. (8) School officials or administrators of child care settings if there is an exposure affecting children;
9. (9) Contacts of infected persons; and
10. (10) Health care workers needing tuberculosis information to comply with tuberculosis screening requirements.

Source: 20 SDR 69, effective November 17, 1993; 28 SDR 92, effective December 30, 2001; 38 SDR 8, effective August 1, 2011.

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.