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Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-527: Reports of a sexually transmitted infection

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  2. Title 63

A. Any physician who makes a diagnosis or treats a case of a

sexually transmitted infection (STI), and every superintendent or

manager of a hospital, dispensary or charitable or penal institution

in which there is a case of an STI, shall report such case

immediately, in writing or electronically:

1. To the director or designee of the city-county health

department, if in Oklahoma County or Tulsa County, who shall, in

turn, report such case to the State Commissioner of Health; or

2. Directly to the State Commissioner of Health, if not in

Oklahoma County or Tulsa County, in the same manner as other

communicable diseases are reported, in forms to be prescribed and

furnished by the Commissioner.

B. This act shall remain in effect until such time as the State

Department of Health has in place a disease-reporting process that

provides for a direct report from a lab or physician's office to the

local health department and is capable of connecting a lab or

physician's office with local health department systems for timely

data delivery and start of the disease investigation process.

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