(1) Subject to the limitation in (2), if a local health officer receives information about a case of any of the following diseases, the officer must ensure that a specimen from the case is submitted to the department, which will be analyzed to confirm the existence or absence of the disease in question:

(a) Anthrax;

(b) Botulism (foodborne);

(c) Brucellosis;

(d) Cholera;

(e) Diarrheal disease outbreak;

(f) Diphtheria;

(g) Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome;

(h) Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV);

(i) Influenza;

(j) Measles (rubeola);

(k) Pertussis (whooping cough);

(l) Plague;

(m) Polio, paralytic or non-paralytic;

(n) Rabies (human);

(o) Rubella (including congenital);

(p) Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS);

(q) Smallpox;

(r) Syphilis;

(s) Trichinosis;

(t) Tuberculosis; and

(u) Typhoid fever.

(2) In the event of an outbreak of diarrheal disease, influenza, or measles, analysis of specimens from each case is unnecessary after the disease organism is determined by the department.

(3) A laboratorian or any other person in possession of a specimen from a case of a disease listed in (1)(a) through (u) must submit the specimen to the local health officer upon request.

(4) If no specimen from the case is otherwise available and the case refuses to allow a specimen to be taken for purposes of (1), the case will be assumed to be infected and must comply with whatever control measures are imposed by the department, or the local health officer.