Vermont § 3504 - Reporting illnesses, diseases, injuries, and deaths associated with weapons of mass destruction

§ 3504. Reporting illnesses, diseases, injuries, and deaths associated with weapons of mass destruction

• (a)(1) Illness, disease, injury, or death. A health care provider shall report all cases of persons who exhibit any illness,
  disease, injury, or death identified by the Department of Health as likely to be caused
  by a weapon of mass destruction, which may include illnesses, diseases, injuries,
  or deaths that: (A) can result from bioterrorism, epidemic, or pandemic disease, or novel and highly fatal
  infectious agents or biological toxins, and might pose a risk of a significant number
  of human fatalities or incidents of permanent or long-term disability; or (B) may be caused by the biological agents listed in 42 C.F.R. Part 72, Appendix A. (2) This section does not authorize, nor shall it be interpreted to authorize, unreasonable
  searches and seizures by public health care employees; nor does this section authorize
  performance of diagnostic tests or procedures for the specific purpose of incriminating
  patients, unless the patient consents to such specific tests or procedures after notice
  of his or her constitutional rights and knowing waiver of them. (3) Health care providers who make good faith reports to the Department of Health under
  this section shall be immune from prosecution, suit, administrative or regulatory
  sanctions for defamation, breach of confidentiality or privacy, or any other cause
  of action based on such reports or errors contained in such reports.