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Presumptive Law Coverage for Infectious Diseases
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Alabama
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Aids, Hepatitis
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Arizona
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An occupational disease which is due to causes and conditions characteristic of and peculiar to a particular trade, occupation, process or employment, and not the ordinary diseases to which the general public is exposed,……
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California
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….develops a blood-borne infectious disease or a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin infection……
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Colorado
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Hepatitis C
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Connecticut
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hepatitis, meningococcal meningitis, tuberculosis
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Florida
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….hepatitis, meningococcal meningitis, or tuberculosis…..
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Idaho
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Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), AIDS related complexes (ARC), other manifestations of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections, infectious hepatitis viruses and tuberculosis…..
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Illinois
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Tuberculosis
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Iowa
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HIV or AIDS, hepatitis, meningococcal meningitis, and mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Louisiana
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Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C
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Maine
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…..hepatitis, meningococcal meningitis or tuberculosis
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Minnesota
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….an infectious or communicable disease to which the employee was exposed in the course of employment outside of a hospital….
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Nebraska
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….a blood-borne infectious disease, tuberculosis, meningococcal meningitis, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus……
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Nevada
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….a contagious disease during the course and scope of his employment……
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New Mexico
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hepatitis, tuberculosis, diphtheria, meningococcal disease and methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus
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New York
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HIV, tuberculosis or hepatitis
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North Dakota
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….an exposure to a bloodborne pathogen…..
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Oklahoma
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hepatitis, human immunodeficiency virus, meningitis and tuberculosis
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Pennsylvania
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Hepatitis C
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Rhode Island
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….infectious disease develops or manifests itself as a result of the exposure…..
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Texas
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tuberculosis
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Utah
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….contracted a disease….as a result of a significant exposure in the performance of his duties…
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Virginia
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Hepatitis, meningococcal meningitis, tuberculosis or HIV
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Washington
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Human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, all strains of hepatitis, meningococcal meningitis, or mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Wisconsin
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HIV, AIDS, tuberculosis, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, hepatitis D, diphtheria, meningococcal meningitis, MRSA, and SARS
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