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2007 Laws of Maryland
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Ch. 377
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date; providing for the termination of this Act; and generally relating to
reportable invasive diseases by laboratories.
BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article — Health — General
Section 18-205(a) and (b)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2005 Replacement Volume and 2006 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 18-205(c)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2005 Replacement Volume and 2006 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article - Health - General
18-205.
(a) In this section, "invasive disease" means a disease in which an organism
is detected in a specimen taken from a normally sterile body site.
(b) (1) The director of a medical laboratory located in this State shall
submit a report to the health officer for the county where the laboratory is located
within 48 hours after an examination of a human specimen shows evidence of any
disease or condition listed in subsection (c) of this section.
(2) The director of a medical laboratory located outside of this State
that performs a medical laboratory test on a human specimen acquired from a person
in this State shall submit a report to the Secretary within 48 hours after an
examination of that specimen shows evidence of any disease or condition listed in
subsection (c) of this section.
(c) The diseases or conditions reportable by a medical laboratory director
under this section are:
(1) Amoebiasis.
(2) ANAPLASMOSIS.
[(2)] (3) Anthrax.
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