Medical colleges and universities shall improve education on and research in preventive medicine and conduct education on and training in preventive medicine among the students and people working for prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, in order to provide technical assistance to the work of preventing and treating infectious diseases.

Disease prevention and control institutions and medical agencies shall regularly conduct among their staff members training in the knowledge and skills of prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.

Article 11 Units and individuals that have made remarkable achievements in or contributions to the work of prevention and treating infectious diseases shall be commended or awarded.

Persons who contract diseases, are disabled or die due participation in the work of preventing and treating infectious diseases shall be subsidized or compensated in accordance with relevant regulations.

Article 12 All units and individuals within the territory of the People's Republic of China shall accept the preventive and control measures taken by disease prevention and control institutions and medical agencies for investigation, testing, collection of samples of infectious diseases and for isolated treatment of such diseases, and they shall provide truthful information about the diseases. Disease prevention and control institutions and medical agencies shall not divulge any information or materials relating to personal privacy.

Where health administration departments and other relevant departments, or disease prevention and control institutions and medical agencies infringe upon the lawful rights and interests of any units or individuals when exercising administrative control or taking preventive and control measures in violation of law, the units or individuals concerned may apply for administrative reconsideration or initiate legal proceedings according to law.

Chapter II Prevention of Infectious Diseases

Article 13 People's governments at all levels shall arrange for mass health activities, conduct health education regarding prevention of infectious diseases, promote a civilized and healthy way of life, enhance the awareness of the public in the importance of prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and their ability of coping with such diseases, improve environmental sanitation and eliminate the hazards of rodents and vector organisms such as mosquitoes and flies.

Administrative departments for agriculture, water conservancy and forestry under the people's governments at all levels shall, in accordance with the division of their duties, take charge of directing and coordinating efforts to eliminate the hazards of rodents and schistosomiasis from the farmlands, lake regions, rivers, livestock farms and forest regions as well as the hazards of other animals and vector organisms that transmit infectious diseases.

Administrative departments for railways, communications and civil aviation shall take charge of coordinating efforts to eliminate the hazards of rodents and vector organisms such as mosquitoes and flies from the means of transport and relevant places.

Article 14 Local people's governments at all levels shall establish or reconstruct public sanitary facilities in a planned way, improve the sanitary condition of drinking water, and take measures for the innocent treatment of sewage, wastes and feces.

Article 15 The State practices a planned prophylactic vaccination system. The health administration department under the State Council and such departments under the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall, in accordance with the requirements of prevention and control of infectious diseases, draw up plans for prophylactic vaccination against infectious diseases and coordinate efforts for their implementation. Vaccines used for prophylactic vaccination shall conform to the quality standards of the State.

The State practices a system by which certificates are issued to children who have received prophylactic vaccination. The prophylactic vaccination under the item of the State immune program shall be free of charge. Medical agencies, disease prevention and control institutions and guardians to children shall cooperate with each other to ensure that children receive prophylactic vaccination in time. The measures in this regard shall be formulated by the State Council.

Article 16 The State and the community shall show concern about and help the infectious disease patients, pathogen carriers and suspected infectious disease patients and make it possible for them to receive timely medical treatment. No units or individuals shall discriminate against infectious disease patients, pathogen carriers and suspected infectious disease patients.

The infectious disease patients, pathogen carriers and suspected infectious disease patients shall, before they are cured or cleared of suspicion, be barred from jobs which laws or administrative regulations or the health administration department under the State Council prohibit them from doing because of the likelihood of causing the spread of infectious diseases.

Article 17 The state establishes the system for monitoring infectious diseases.

The health administration department under the State Council shall draw up plans and schemes of the State for monitoring infectious diseases. The health administration departments under the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall, in accordance with the said plans and schemes, draw up plans and work schemes for monitoring infectious diseases in their own administrative areas.

Disease prevention and control institutions at different levels shall monitor the outbreak and prevalence of infectious diseases as well as the factors affecting their outbreak and prevalence; and they shall monitor the infectious diseases which have broken out abroad but have not yet broken at home or have newly broken out at home.

Article 18 Disease prevention and control institutions at all levels shall, in the work of prevention and control of infectious diseases, perform the following duties:

(1) to carry out the programs, plans and schemes for prevention and control of infectious diseases;

(2) to collect, analyse and report monitored information about infectious diseases and to forecast the outbreak and epidemic trend of infectious diseases;

(3) to conduct epidemiological investigation on the epidemic situation of infectious diseases and on public sanitation emergencies as well as on-the-spot treatment, and to assess the effects;

(4) to conduct laboratory testing of infectious diseases and to make diagnosis and etiological appraisal;

(5) to carry out immunization programs and to be responsible for control of the use of preventive biological products;

(6) to conduct education and provide consultancy on health and to disseminate knowledge about prevention and treatment of infectious diseases;

(7) to direct and train disease prevention and control institutions at lower levels and their staff members in respect of the monitoring of infectious diseases; and

(8) to conduct application research in prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and make health assessment, and to provide technical consultancy.

Disease prevention and control institutions at the central and provincial levels shall take charge of monitoring the outbreak, prevalence and geographical distribution of infectious diseases, forecasting the epidemic trend of deadly infectious diseases, putting forth preventive and control measures, participating in and directing the investigation on and handling of the epidemic situation that arises, making etiological appraisal of the infectious diseases, establishing a testing system for quality control, and conducting application research and making sanitation assessment.