25 Tex. Admin. Code § 97.13 - Death of a Person with Certain Communicable Diseases
(a) If a physician has knowledge that a
person had, at the time of death, a communicable disease listed in subsection
(c) of this section, then the hospital administrator, clinic administrator,
nurse, or the physician shall affix or cause to be affixed a tag on the body,
preferably the great toe.
(b) The
tag shall be on card stock paper and shall be no smaller than five centimeters
by ten centimeters. The tag shall include the words "COMMUNICABLE
DISEASE--BLOOD/BODY SUBSTANCE PRECAUTIONS REQUIRED" in letters no smaller than
six millimeters in height. The name of the deceased person shall be written on
the tag. The tag shall remain affixed to the body until the preparation of the
body for burial has been completed.
(c) Diseases that shall require tagging are
acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS); anthrax; brucellosis; cholera;
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome; hepatitis, viral; human immunodeficiency virus
(HIV) infection; novel coronavirus; novel influenza; plague; prion diseases,
such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD); Q fever; rabies; Rocky Mountain
spotted fever; smallpox; syphilis; tuberculosis (Mycobacterium
tuberculosis complex); tularemia; and viral hemorrhagic
fever.
(d) All persons should
routinely practice standard infection control procedures when performing
postmortem care on a deceased person who is known or suspected of having a
communicable disease listed in subsection (c) of this section.
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