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Disease Reporting
What and When to Report
Health Care Providers shall report all cases or suspected cases of the diseases, infections, microorganisms, and conditions specified below. The timing of Health Care Provider reports is specified to reflect the severity of the illness or condition and the potential value of rapid intervention by public health agencies.
When Local Public Health Authorities cannot be reached within the specified time limits, reports shall be made directly to DHS, which shall maintain an around-the-clock public health consultation service.
Licensed Laboratories shall report all test results indicative of and specific for the diseases, infections, microorganisms, and conditions specified below. Such tests include but are not limited to: microbiological culture, isolation, or identification; assays for specific antibodies; and identification of specific antigens, toxins, or nucleic acid sequences.
Reportable diseases, infections, microorganisms, and conditions; and the time frames within which they must be reported by Health Care Providers, are as follows:
Immediately, day or night:
- Bacillus anthracis (anthrax);
- Clostridium botulinum (botulism);
- Corynebacterium diphtheriae (diphtheria);
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and infection by SARS-coronavirus
- Yersinia pestis (plague);
- intoxication caused by marine microorganisms or their byproducts (for example, paralytic shellfish poisoning, domoic acid intoxication, ciguatera, scombroid); any known or suspected common-source Outbreaks;
- any Uncommon Illness of Potential Public Health Significance.
Within 24 hours (including weekends and holidays):
- Haemophilus influenzae (any invasive disease; for laboratories, any isolation or identification from a normally sterile site);
- measles (rubeola);
- Neisseria meningitidis (any invasive disease; for laboratories, any isolation or identification from a normally sterile site);
- Pesticide Poisoning;
- poliomyelitis;
- rabies (human or animal);
- rubella;
- Vibrio (all species).
Within one Local Public Health Authority working day:
- Bordetella pertussis (pertussis);
- Borrelia (relapsing fever, Lyme disease);
- Brucella (brucellosis);
- Campylobacter (campylobacteriosis);
- Chlamydophila (Chlamydia) psittaci (psittacosis);
- Chlamydia trachomatis (chlamydiosis; lymphogranuloma venereum);
- Clostridium tetani (tetanus)
- Coxiella burnetii (Q fever);
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
- Cryptosporidium (cryptosporidiosis);
- Cyclospora cayetanensis (cyclosporidiosis);
- Escherichia coli (Shiga-toxigenic, including E. coli O157 and other serogroups);
- Francisella tularensis (tularemia);
- Giardia (giardiasis);
- Haemophilus ducreyi (chancroid);
- hantavirus
- hepatitis A;
- hepatitis B (acute or chronic infection);
- hepatitis C
- hepatitis D (delta);
- HIV infection (does not apply to anonymous testing) and AIDS;
- Legionella (legionellosis);
- Leptospira (leptospirosis);
- Listeria monocytogenes (listeriosis);
- Mumps
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M. bovis (tuberculosis);
- Neisseria gonorrhoeae (gonococcal infections);
- pelvic inflammatory disease (acute, non-gonococcal)
- Plasmodium (malaria);
- Rickettsia (all species: Rocky Mountain spotted fever, typhus, others);
- Salmonella (salmonellosis, including typhoid);
- Shigella (shigellosis);
- Taenia solium (including cysticercosis and other undifferentiated Taenia infections
- Treponema pallidum (syphilis);
- Trichinella (trichinosis);
- Yersinia (other than pestis);
- any infection that is typically arthropod vector-borne (for example: Western equine encephalitis, Eastern equine encephalitis, St. Louis encephalitis, dengue, West Nile fever, yellow fever, California encephalitis, ehrlichiosis, babesiosis, Kyasanur Forest disease, Colorado tick fever, etc.);
- human bites by any other mammal;
- CD4 cell count <200/ml (mm3) or CD4 proportion of total lymphocytes <14%;
- hemolytic uremic syndrome.
Within 7 days:
- Suspected Lead Poisoning (for laboratories; this includes all blood lead tests performed on persons with suspected lead poisoning);
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