---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300ff–131"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300ff–131"
heading: "Infectious diseases and circumstances relevant to notification requirements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300ff-131"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXIV — Hiv Health Care Services Program"
  - "Part G — Notification of Possible Exposure to Infectious Diseases"
---

# §300ff–131. Infectious diseases and circumstances relevant to notification requirements

- (a) **In general—** Not later than 180 days after October 30, 2009, the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall complete the development of—
  - (1) a list of potentially life-threatening infectious diseases, including emerging infectious diseases, to which emergency response [employees](/usc/42/300gg–91.md?p=d-5) may be exposed in responding to emergencies;
  - (2) guidelines describing the circumstances in which such [employees](/usc/42/300gg–91.md?p=d-5) may be exposed to such diseases, taking into account the conditions under which emergency response is provided; and
  - (3) guidelines describing the manner in which [medical facilities](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=11) should make determinations for purposes of [section 300ff–133(d) of this title](/usc/42/300ff–133.md?p=d).
- (b) **Specification of airborne infectious diseases—** The list developed by the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) under [subsection (a)(1)](#a-1) shall include a specification of those infectious diseases on the list that are routinely transmitted through airborne or aerosolized means.
- (c) **Dissemination—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall—
  - (1) transmit to [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) public health officers copies of the list and guidelines developed by the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) under [subsection (a)](#a) with the request that the officers disseminate such copies as appropriate throughout the [States](/usc/42/201.md?p=f); and
  - (2) make such copies available to the public.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXVI, § 2695, as added Pub. L. 111–87, § 13, Oct. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 2897.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective as if enacted on Sept. 30, 2009, see section 2(a)(3)(B) of Pub. L. 111–87, set out as an Effective Date of 2009 Amendment; Revival of Section note under section 300ff–11 of this title.