Infektionsschutzrecht

Background

Legal regulations concerning infection protection have been repeatedly revised in the last few years. At the national level the regulations for notifable diseases were recently broadened to include the suspicion of disease, the disease and death due to mumps, pertussis, rubella including congenital rubella and varicella (chickenpox). In addition notification deadlines were shortened in the new regulations and the information to be reported was expanded. At the “Bundesländer” level, there are also new regulations which expand notification concerning diseases and are extended to other contagious diseases. In addition, infection protection also includes measures to prevent and combat contagious diseases.

Objective

This article describes the current legal situation.