Section 7.27.005. Reporting by health care providers.

	(a)  A disease or other condition of public health importance listed in this subsection constitutes a public health emergency requiring immediate reporting. A health care provider who first diagnoses or suspects a diagnosis of the disease or other condition shall immediately report the disease or other condition by telephone directly to a public health agent in the department. The following diseases or other conditions must be reported under this subsection:  
		(1) anthrax;  
		(2) botulism;  
		(3) diphtheria;  
		(4) glanders;  
		(5) hemorrhagic fever, including dengue fever;  
		(6) influenza, suspected novel strains;  
		(7) measles;  
		(8) melioidosis;  
		(9) meningococcal invasive disease;  
		(10) paralytic shellfish poisoning;  
		(11) plague;  
		(12) poliomyelitis;  
		(13) rabies in a human or an animal;  
		(14) rubella;  
		(15) severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS);  
		(16) smallpox;  
		(17) tetanus;  
		(18) tularemia;  
		(19) yellow fever;  
		(20) an outbreak or an unusual number or clustering of diseases or other conditions of public health importance.  
	(b)  In addition to the immediate reporting requirement of (a) of this section, a health care provider shall submit a report to the department orally, electronically, or on a department-provided form not later than five working days after first discovering or suspecting the existence of the following diseases or conditions:  
		(1) acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS);  
		(2) amnestic shellfish (domoic acid) intoxication;  
		(3) antibiotic-resistant organisms of national significance, including vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae;  
		(4) arboviral neuroinvasive and nonneuroinvasive disease, including West Nile virus infection;  
		(5) brucellosis;  
		(6) campylobacteriosis;  
		(7) chancroid;  
		(8) Chlamydia trachomatis infection;  
		(9) ciguatera fish poisoning;  
		(10) cryptosporidiosis;  
		(11) cyclosporosis;  
		(12) cysticercosis;  
		(13) diphyllobothriasis;  
		(14) echinococcosis;  
		(15) giardiasis;  
		(16) gonorrhea;  
		(17) Haemophilus influenzae invasive disease;  
		(18) hantavirus pulmonary syndrome;  
		(19) hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS);  
		(20) hepatitis (type A, B, or C);  
		(21) human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection;  
		(22) influenza death, laboratory-confirmed by any testing methodology;  
		(23) legionellosis (Legionnaires' disease or Pontiac fever);  
		(24) leptospirosis;  
		(25) leprosy (Hansen's disease);  
		(26) listeriosis;  
		(27) Lyme disease;  
		(28) malaria;  
		(29) mumps;  
		(30) pertussis (whooping cough);  
		(31) pregnancy in a person known to be infected with hepatitis B, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), or syphilis;  
		(32) prion diseases, including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD);  
		(33) psittacosis;  
		(34) Q fever;  
		(35) rheumatic fever;  
		(36) salmonellosis;  
		(37) scombroid fish poisoning;  
		(38) Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infection, including OI57:H7;  
		(39) shigellosis;  
		(40) Streptococcus agalactiae (Group B streptococcus), invasive disease;  
		(41) Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus), invasive disease;  
		(42) Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A streptococcus), invasive disease and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome, including necrotizing fasciitis;  
		(43) syphilis;  
		(44) trichinosis (trichinellosis);  
		(45) tuberculosis;  
		(46) typhoid fever;  
		(47) varicella (chickenpox);  
		(48) Vibrio infection, including cholera;  
		(49) yersiniosis.  
	(c)  Each report must give the name, address, date of birth, sex, ethnicity, and race of the person diagnosed as having the reported disease or other condition, whether that person is pregnant, whether the diagnosis is laboratory-confirmed, and the name and address of the health care provider reporting the disease or other condition. For certain conditions, the department may require a health care provider to submit additional data elements if essential for adequate public health response, including medications provided.  

Authorities

18.05.010;18.05.040;18.15.355;18.15.362;18.15.370

Notes

Reference

7 AAC 12.760

Authority

AS 18.05.010 AS 18.05.040 AS 18.15.355 AS 18.15.362 AS 18.15.370

History

Eff. 8/21/74, Register 51; am 9/20/75, Register 55; am 3/28/84, Register 89; am 1/19/96, Register 137; am 2/10/99, Register 149; am 5/30/2003, Register 166; am 8/22/2003, Register 167; am 12/29/2006, Register 180; am 5/3/2007, Register 182; am 12/29/2013, Register 208