Idaho Admin. Code r. 16.02.10.065, Investigation and Control of Reportable Diseases

Requires the Department of Health and Welfare to confirm cases or suspected cases of reportable diseases. Permits disease investigations upon a determination by the health district director, public health administrator, or state epidemiologist that a disease is of public health significance. Requires physicians and health care providers to report conditions in accordance with Idaho Admin. Code r. 16.02.10.050, cooperate with Department investigations, and to instruct the person that has the reportable condition about control methods. Permits persons that believe they have been significantly exposed to the blood or bodily fluid of another person while providing emergency services or medical care to report the exposure to the Department within 14 days. Requires the state epidemiologist to assess whether there was a significant exposure. Requires the Department to subsequently notify the exposed individual as to epidemiologist’s determination and make recommendations for counseling and testing. Grants the Department, when enforcing reportable diseases regulations, authority to: enter private or public property, order the closure of schools or other places of public assembly, order a person to submit to an examination, and order that a person be isolated or quarantined. Establishes limits and procedural requirements for these authorities (e.g., isolation must be limited to the least restrictive means, orders for isolation or examination must be delivered to the person under order as well as their physician, and a prosecuting attorney, etc.). Requires persons diagnosed of a sexually transmitted disease to give the Department or health district the contact information of all persons they may have contracted the disease from or transmitted the disease to.