26. A health professional with the authority to make a diagnosis or to assess a person’s state of health and a chief executive officer of a medical biology laboratory or a clinical department of laboratory medicine must report by telephone as soon as possible to the national public health director and the competent public health director, the following diseases: 1° botulism;
2° cholera;
3° yellow fever;
4° viral haemorrhagic fevers;
5° Anthrax;
6° plague;
7° smallpox.
The person reporting must send a written report to those directors within 48 hours of the telephone communication.
2019-012A.M. 2019-012, s. 26; S.Q. 2020, c. 6, s. 73.