Surveillance Is Responsible For Verifying The Diagnosis...

Surveillance is responsible for verifying the diagnosis and treatment of all reportable STDs from public and private health care providers; private and public hospitals, laboratories, physicians and other health related care providers, as required by law, report positive STDs such as syphilis and HIV to the MDCHD on a daily basis STD Control and Prevention (n.d). If a person is tested positive for syphilis, the UCF Community Care Center will have to report it to the Florida Department. We have to do this so that the public health officials can monitor syphilis epidemic in the state of Florida. Another reason why we have to report it to the health department is because the health department wants to know if the disease is the strongest in that state. Even though the person is a highly recognizable and highly influential member of the community, we have to report it to the Florida health department. Before the Florida health department report or send in any information to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, they will make sure that his or her information is kept private, they will not disclose any personal information about the person who is tested positive for syphilis. The law that governs this is the Florida Administrative Code 64D-3, entitled Control of Communicable Diseases and Conditions, which may significantly Affect Public Health, is the mandate that empowers the Department of Health to record communicable diseases and dictates when and how