(a) Notification of Positive Laboratory Finding for Syphilis. To assist the local health officer in the discharge of his duties under Section 3110 and 3194 of the Health and Safety Code, any person who is in charge of a blood bank in which a laboratory examination of any specimen derived from a donor yields serological or other evidence of syphilis shall promptly notify the health officer of the local health jurisdiction of the address of the donor. This notification shall contain the type of specimen, the date it was obtained, the nature and result of the test performed, and the name, address, and the date of birth of the donor who provided the specimen.

The notification may be made by mailing or otherwise delivering a legible copy of the laboratory report containing all of the required information or by a telephone communication which is documented in the blood bank's records.

(b) The notifications required in this section are confidential and not open for public inspection.