2012 Delaware Code
Title 16 - Health and Safety
CHAPTER 7. SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES
§ 701. Definitions.

(a) "Director" shall mean the Director of the Division of Public Health or the Director's authorized deputies within their respective jurisdictions.

(b) "Health care professional" shall mean any physician, nurse, laboratory or blood bank technologist or technician, and any others whose professions involve the diagnosis, care or treatment of persons or the testing of bodily specimens for the purpose of finding evidence of disease.

(c) "Health facility" shall mean a hospital, nursing home, clinic, blood bank, blood center, sperm bank, laboratory or other health care institution whether public or private.

(d) "Invasive medical procedures" shall mean surgical entry into tissues, cavities or organs.

(e) "Sexually transmitted diseases" (formerly referred to as "venereal diseases"), abbreviated STD, shall be designated by the Department of Health and Social Services as reportable through rules and regulations published by the Department of Health and Social Services pursuant to § 706 of this title upon finding that such diseases:

(1) Cause significant morbidity and mortality; and

(2) Can be screened, diagnosed and treated in a public health control program, or if not, are a major public health concern such that surveillance of disease occurrence is in the public interest.

(f) Any person falling into 1 or more of the following categories is designated as a "suspect":

(1) A person having positive laboratory or clinical findings of an STD;

(2) A person in whom epidemiologic evidence indicates an STD may exist; and

(3) A person identified as a sexual contact of an STD case.

66 Del. Laws, c. 334, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 149, § 78; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.;