NAC441A.605. Malaria.

     1. The health authority shall investigate each report of a case having malaria to confirm the diagnosis and to determine the type and source of the infection.

     2. If transmission of malaria may have occurred in this State, the health authority shall conduct an entomologic investigation to determine the extent of mosquito activity and to institute control measures, if necessary.

     3. If a case having malaria is in a medical facility, the medical facility shall provide care to the case in accordance with universal precautions or other appropriate disease specific precautions.

     4. The person in charge of a blood bank shall use all reasonable means to elicit from any person who applies to donate blood whether he or she has or has had malaria, or has traveled in, visited or immigrated from an area endemic for malaria, or whether he or she has taken antimalarial drugs. The blood bank shall not accept any blood from a person who refuses to supply such information.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Health, eff. 1-24-92)