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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>74231</law_id><section_number>32.1-35</section_number><catch_line>List and reports of diseases and dangerous microbes and pathogens</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>18.2-61.1</reference><reference>2.2-4002</reference><reference>22.1-271.3</reference><reference>32.1-127.1:04</reference><reference>32.1-39</reference><reference>32.1-42</reference><reference>32.1-49</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="32.1">Health</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="2">Disease Prevention and Control</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Reporting of Diseases</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Board</span> shall promulgate from time to time a list of diseases, including diseases caused by exposure to any toxic substance as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/32.1-239/">32.1-239</a> and including diseases that may be caused by exposure to an agent or substance that has the potential for use as a weapon, that shall be required to be reported. The <span class="dictionary">Board</span> shall also promulgate from time to time a list of dangerous microbes and pathogens that shall be required to be reported by laboratories. The <span class="dictionary">Board</span> may classify such diseases, microbes and pathogens and prescribe the manner and time of such reporting.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 32-16; 1979, c. 711; 2002, cc. 100, 768.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
