NAC441A.300. Health authority: Authorization to disclose information of personal nature to certain persons; duty to educate certain persons on transmission, prevention, control, diagnosis and treatment.

     1. Pursuant to subsection 6 of NRS 441A.220, information of a personal nature provided by a person making a report of a case or suspected case or provided by the person having a communicable disease, or determined by investigation of the health authority, may be disclosed by the health authority to:

     (a) A person who has been exposed, in a manner determined by the health authority likely to have allowed transmission of a communicable disease, to blood, semen, vaginal secretions, saliva, urine, feces, respiratory secretions or other body fluids which are known through laboratory confirmation or reasonably suspected by the health authority to contain the causative agent of a communicable disease.

     (b) The parent or legal guardian of a case or suspected case or of a person described in paragraph (a) if determined by the health authority to be necessary for the protection of the parent or legal guardian or for the well-being of the case, suspected case or person described in paragraph (a).

     (c) The health care provider of a case or suspected case or of a person described in paragraph (a) if determined by the health authority to be necessary for the protection of the health care provider or for the well-being of the case, suspected case or person described in paragraph (a).

     (d) The employer of a person having a communicable disease if that person is employed in a sensitive occupation and the health authority determines that the potential for transmission of the disease is enhanced by his or her employment.

     (e) The principal, director or other person in charge of a medical facility, school, child care facility, correctional facility or licensed house of prostitution if:

          (1) A person attending, working, residing or being cared for in the medical facility, school, child care facility, correctional facility or licensed house of prostitution has a communicable disease; and

          (2) The health authority determines that the potential for transmission of the disease is enhanced by the activities of the person described in subparagraph (1).

     (f) An animal control officer of any town, city or county, or of any state or federal agency, for the purpose of an investigation of a report of an animal bite by a rabies-susceptible animal.

     (g) Any other person determined by the health authority through an investigation of a case to be at risk for acquiring the communicable disease.

     2. Information of a personal nature must not be disclosed to a person pursuant to subsection 1 unless the health authority has determined that the person has been or is likely to be exposed sufficiently to the causative agent of a communicable disease as to have allowed transmission of the disease.

     3. The health authority making a disclosure pursuant to subsection 1 shall disclose only that information of a personal nature which is necessary for the protection of the person to whom it is disclosed.

     4. If a health authority has determined that a person has been exposed to blood, semen, vaginal secretions, saliva, urine, feces, respiratory secretions or other body fluids in a manner likely to have allowed transmission of a communicable disease, he or she shall take reasonable measures to educate the exposed person on the transmission, prevention, control, diagnosis and treatment of the disease.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Health, eff. 1-24-92; A 10-22-93)