Epidemiological Safety Law (1997)

This Law provides for epidemiological safety. Its purpose is to regulate epidemiological safety and specify the rights and duties of State authorities, local governments, and natural persons and legal persons in the field of epidemiological safety, as well as to determine liability for the violation of this Law. Epidemiological safety includes the environmental health measures; the epidemiological surveillance of infectious diseases, including the registration, enumeration and analysis of the morbidity for infectious diseases; the laboratory examination of human, animal and environmental materials for the monitoring of circulation of infectious disease-causing agents; the study of the immunity of the population; the provision of immunobiological preparations and the vaccination of the population; the detection, enumeration, treatment and, if necessary, the isolation of patients and infected persons; the laboratory examination, medical and epidemiological observation of exposed persons; the restriction and prohibition of the occupational activities of patients and infected persons; the recovery measures of the infectious disease sources, as well as measures for the discontinuance of the circulation of infectious disease-causing agents in the external environment; public health protection measures; informing the inhabitants regarding the epidemiological situation and education on issues regarding the prophylaxis of infectious diseases; and the application of compulsory measures laid down in law for failure to implement epidemiological safety measures.