West Virginia Code § 16-4-4

Evidence of infection
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The following are prima facie grounds and reasons for suspecting that a person is infected
with a sexually transmitted disease:
(a) Being a person who has been convicted in any court, or before a police judge, or before a
magistrate, upon any charge growing out of sexual behavior;
(b) Being a person reported by a physician as infected with a sexually transmitted disease,
where the person is afterwards reported as having failed to return for treatment; and
(c) Being a person designated in a sexually transmitted disease report as having a sexual
exposure to the infected person reported.

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