DISEASES, REPORTABLE"Each physician or other person called to attend a person suffering from cholera, plague, yellow fever, typhus fever, diphtheria, typhoid fever, or any other disease dangerous to the public health, or required by the Department of Health to be reported shall report to the Health Commissioner within whose jurisdiction the sick person is found the name, age, sex, and color of the patient, and the house and place in which the sick person may be found." ORC § 3707.06 (Similar reporting requirements in ORC § 3701.24) A complete list of diseases to be reported is found in the Public Health Council's rule OAC § 3701-3-02 and is available from the Ohio Department of Health, 246 North High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43266-0558, (614) 466-3543. Diseases listed as Class A and Class B under rule 3701-3-02 of the Administrative Code shall be reported to the Board of Health within twenty -four hours after the existence of such case or suspected case is known. OAC § 3701-3-05 "Every physician attending on or called in to visit a patient whom he believes to be suffering from poisoning from lead, phosphorus, arsenic, brass, wood alcohol, mercury, or their compounds, or from anthrax or from compressed air illness and such other occupational diseases and ailments as the Department of Health shall require to be reported, shall within forty -eight hours from the time of first attending such patient send to the Director of Health a report stating:
"Any information, data, and reports with respect to a case of malignant disease which are furnished to, or procured by, any cancer registry in this state shall be confidential and shall be used only for statistical, scientific, and medical research for the purpose of reducing the morbidity or mortality of malignant disease. No physician or surgeon, dentist, institution, or hospital furnishing such information, data, or report to any such cancer registry, with respect to a case of malignant disease treated or examined by such physician or surgeon, dentist, or confined in such institution or hospital, shall by reason of such furnishing be deemed to have violated any confidential relationship, or be held liable in damages to any person, or be held to answer for betrayal of a professional secret within the meaning and intent of Section 4731.22 of the Revised Code." ORC § 3701.261 If a physician sees a patient whom he or she believes is suffering from an occupational disease, he or she must within forty -eight hours send a report to the Industrial Commission.
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§ 4123.71 Boards of Education may require tests and examinations for tuberculosis of pupils in selected grades and of school employees. All persons with positive reactions to the test must have chest X-rays and all positive reactions and X ray findings must be reported promptly to the county record bureau of tuberculosis cases provided for in Section 339.42 of the Revised Code. ORC § 3313.71 (See also: AIDS/AIDS-RELATED CONDITION; OBSTETRICS, REQUIRED TESTS)DISEASES, REPORTABLE |
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