The physician or other health practitioner attending a person infected with a reportable disease shall immediately report the case to the Iowa department of public health. However, when a case occurs within the jurisdiction of a local health department the report shall be made to the local health department and to the Iowa department of public health. The Iowa department of public health shall publish and distribute instructions concerning method of reporting. Reports shall be made in accordance with rules adopted by the Iowa department of public health. Any person in good faith making a report of a disease has immunity from any liability, civil or criminal, which might otherwise be incurred or imposed for making a report. A report to the Iowa department of public health, to a local board of health, or to a local health department, which identifies a person infected with a reportable disease, is confidential and shall not be accessible to the public. However, information contained in the report may be reported in public health records in a manner which prevents the identification of any person named in the report.
[SS15, § 2571-1a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 2249; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, § 139.3; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 139.2; 81 Acts, ch 62, § 3]
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