To fulfill the objectives of this Act, the following diseases shall be included in the sense of communicable disease, namely:-
(a) Malaria;
(b) Black fever
(c) Dengue
(d) Influenza
(e) Avian flu
(f) Nipah;
(g) Anthrax;
(h) MERS-CoV;
(i) Rabies;
(j) Japanese encephalitis;
(k) Diarrhea;
(l) Tuberculosis;
(m) Reparatory tract infection
(n) HIV;
(o) Viral Hepatitis;
(p) Diseases preventable by vaccination;
(q) Typhoid;
(r) Food poisoning;
(s) Meningitis;
(t) Ebola;
(u) Zika;
(v) Chikungunya; and
(w) Any of emerging and reemerging diseases declared by the Government by means of notification in the government gazette.

(1) To fulfill the objectives of this Act, within the purview of the general or special power of the Government the duties and functions of the Directorate shall be, inter alia, as follows, namely:-
(a) Prevention, control and eradication of communicable diseases and taking concerted initiatives including the development of action plan with a view to providing protection to the people from its national and international spreading;
(b) Taking assistance from government, private, local and international agencies for the implementation of the action plan mentioned in Clause (a);
(c) Addressing emergency situations relating to public health and taking necessary initiatives for the enhancement of awareness, reduction of health related risks, prevention, control and eradication of communicable diseases;
(d) Giving necessary directives to isolate infected areas from uninfected areas, prevent the outbreak of the said disease in the uninfected areas and prevent its reoccurrence in the infected areas;
(e) Taking necessary actions for the prevention of unnecessary use and misuse of the antibiotic drugs used in the treatment of communicable diseases;
(f) If any person affected by any communicable disease is given treatment in any residence, other buildings, clinic, hospital and diagnostic center or if such an establishment is considered as the source of such disease, inspecting the said place or establishment and taking necessary measures thereby;
(g) Conducting the physical test and laboratory test of the affected person and, if need be, administering antibiotic, vaccine or medicine;
(h) Giving directives to such person with whom there is information relating to any communicable disease to send the information relating to the said disease to the Directorate;
(i) Killing harmful insects, and with a view to prevention and control of vector borne diseases-
(i) Applying insecticide to residences, other houses, mosquito nets, curtains, bed-sheets, and other usable clothes;
(ii) Determining the safe dose of insecticides;
(iii) Entering any compound for collecting information;
(iv) Management of breeding place;
(v) If insecticide is applied to control the vectors of any communicable disease, abstaining from washing, whitewashing or plastering it within the next 5 (five) months, and preventing any measures to be taken on its surface;
(j) Inspecting and testing of food, beverage, or their raw materials at the time of their manufacturing, preservation, transportation and distribution to detect contamination and spuriousness;
(k) Keeping any such person who is suspected to have been infected by any communicable disease in quarantine or in isolation in a specific hospital, temporary hospital, establishment or home;
(l) Preventing germ induced contamination and destroying or removing the source of infection;
(m) Prohibiting such engineering, agricultural or industrial projects that may cause increase or spread of malaria and other communicable diseases;
(n) Prohibiting the sales of such kind of goods that may hamper the effectiveness of long lasting insecticidal net (LLIN) of insecticidal net seal or curtain;
(o) May lock down any marketplace, mass gathering, station, airport, seaport, and land ports temporarily in order to prevent the spread of a communicable disease;
(p) Prohibiting inbound and outbound movement of aircrafts, ships, buses, trains and other vehicles as well as their movement from one place to another within the country with a view to preventing the spread of communicable diseases;
(q) Performing other tasks including carrying out the duties assigned by the Government time to time.
(2) The Director General shall remain responsible for carrying out the duties and performing tasks under this Act.

(1) With a view to providing protection to the people from national and international spread of communicable diseases, International Health Regulations, published by World Health Organization and mentioned in the Schedule, shall be applicable, as fit, with necessary adaptation in case of prevention, control and eradication of the said diseases, issuing global warning and enhancing the capacity of mutual cooperation in case of the outbreak of those diseases, enhancing the capacity of specific risk management and in case of other methodical matters including disseminating knowledge, reviewing the development of the diseases, and preserving rights thereof.

(1) If any physician is engaged in the treatment of any person affected by any communicable disease and if he is informed about the death of any person having been affected by the said disease, or the existence of any communicable disease in any residence, compound or in any area, he shall inform the matter to the Civil Surgeon concerned.
(2) If any owner of any boarding, residential hotel or temporary residence any person assigned thinks due to some reasonable cause that any person living in the said place has been affected by any communicable disease, he shall thereby inform the matter to the Civil Surgeon and the Deputy Commissioner of the district concerned.
(3) If any Civil Surgeon is informed about any communicable disease or about any person affected by the said disease, he shall thereby inform the matter to the Director General.

(1) The Director General may, with prior approval from the Government, by means of order, declare any of the following areas as infected area, namely:-
(a) Any local area or zone within Bangladesh which have been affected or is reasonably suspected to have been affected by any communicable disease;
(b) Any goods, house, compound, residence or vehicle used by an infected person for eradicating or containing the spread of infection;
(2) If it appears to the Director General or any empowered employee that it is not possible to contain or eradicate any communicable disease immediately by taking proper health protection measures, he may prohibit, limit or control any other person from coming in contact of the infected person or access to the infected place.
(3) To fulfill the objectives of this Section, other matters shall be determined by Rules.

(1) If the empowered employee has such reason to believe that any person has been infected by a communicable disease or there is presence of the germs of any communicable disease in his body, he may collect specimen from the said person and test it.
(2) The empowered employee shall get the specimen collected under Sub-section (1) pathologically tested.
(3) If the presence of any communicable disease or the germs of the disease in the said specimen is confirmed by the pathological test, the empowered employee shall inform the Civil Surgeon of his own jurisdiction regarding the matter, along with necessary advice regarding what to do, and shall take subsequent necessary initiative regarding the said matter in accordance with the directives from the Civil Surgeon.

(1) If any empowered employee has such reason to believe that the goods used by any person infected by a communicable disease contains any germs of the said disease, in that case, he may, in accordance with the procedure as determined by Rules, disinfect or destroy such goods.

If the empowered employee has such reason to believe that unless the infected person is isolated, other persons may be infected through him, in that case the said person may, in accordance with the procedure as determined by Rules, be temporarily transferred to or isolated at some other place.

To prevent the spread of any communicable disease, if the empowered employee has such reason to believe that there is presence of a communicable disease or its germs in the residence of any person or any other house, or compound, any goods used by the person, in that case, he may, in accordance with the procedure as determined by Rules, inspect the said place.

(1) The empowered employee may take the following actions in order for being confirmed about the presence of the germs of any communicable disease in any place or establishment, -
(a) Testing the suspected place, establishment or compound;
(b) Directing disinfection of the suspected place, establishment or compound;
(c) Prohibiting or limiting the access of common people to the suspected place, establishment or compound until the said place is disinfected;
(d) Any other measure as determined by Rules.
(2) To fulfill the objectives of Sub-section (1), the empowered employee may, in accordance with the procedure determined by Rules, enter any suspected place, establishment or compound.