Malaria (Reportable by mail, telephone, facsimile, or electronically as soon as possible, within three days)

Section 690 Section 690.510  Malaria (Reportable by mail, telephone, facsimile, or electronically as soon as possible, within three days) a)         Control of Case No specific restrictions . b)         Control of Contacts No specific restrictions. c)         Laboratory Reporting 1)         Laboratories shall report to the local health authority, regardless of the patients' state or country of residence, patients who have a positive or presumptive positive result on any laboratory test indicative of and specific for detecting Plasmodium species infection. 2)         If laboratories are not able to speciate malaria specimens, laboratories shall forward clinical materials, including, but not limited to, whole blood, slides and images found to contain malaria parasites to the Department's laboratory for speciation. Whole blood samples are the preferred specimen type.