ARSD 44:20:02:08. Disclosure of reports

The department may disclose or authorize the disclosure of reportable disease and condition information, limited to that necessary to provide medical care to a person or to prevent the further transmission of a reportable disease or condition. The following may receive confidential, pertinent, reportable disease or condition information: (1) Physicians and health care workers for whom the information is necessary to proceed with medical treatment; (2) Institutions whose employees or clients may pose a risk to the public's health; (3) Review panels convened or authorized by the department regarding HIV-infected physicians or health care workers; (4) Agencies of the U.S. Public Health Services, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Indian Health Services, and other local, state, tribal, and territorial health agencies; (5) Agencies or persons receiving donated blood, organs, tissues, or body fluids; (6) Researchers conducting anonymous epidemiological research; (7) Health care workers, emergency response workers, good samaritans, and funeral directors if there has been a potentially significant exposure to the blood or body fluids of a person; (8) School officials or administrators of child care settings if there is an exposure affecting children; (9) Contacts of infected persons; and (10) Health care workers needing tuberculosis information to comply with tuberculosis screening requirements.