Immediately
Reportable
There are 28
diseases, poisonings, organisms & events that physicians,
hospitals, and laboratories are required to immediately report
to the health department.
* Anthrax
(Bacillus anthracis)*
*
Botulism (Clostridium botulinum)*
* Brucellosis (Brucella
species)*
* Cholera
(Vibrio Cholerae)
*
Diphtheria (Corynebacterium diptheriae)
* Clusters, Outbreaks or
Unusual Events, Including
* Possible Bioterroristic
Attacks * (Clusters, outbreaks or epidemics of any health
problem, infectious or other, including food poisoning,
influenza or possible bioterroristic attack; increased disease
incidence beyond expectations; unexplained deaths possibly due
to unidentified infectious causes; any unusual disease or
manifestations of illness.)
* Glanders
Burkholderia
*
Haemophilus influenzae infection (invasive disease
only)
* Hemolytic
uremic syndrome (post-diarrheal illness)
* Hepatitis A (IgM
antibody-positive or clinically diagnosed during an
outbreak)
* Maarburg
virus*
* Measles
(Rubeola)
*
Melioidosis [Burkholderia (Pseudomonas)
pseudomallei]*
*
Meningitis (Haemophilus influenzae or Neisseria
meningitides)
*
Meningococcemia (Neisseria meningitidis)
* Pertussis/whooping cough
(Bordetella pertussis)
* Plague (Yersinia
pestis)*
*
Poliomyelitis
* Q
fever (Coxiella burnetii)*
* Rabies, (human and animal
cases and suspects)
*
Rubella and congenital rubella syndrome
* Smallpox*
* Staphylococcal enterotoxin
B intoxication*
*
Staphylococcus aureus,
vancomycin-intermediate/resistant(MIC>4 ?g/mL)
* Tularemia (Francisella
tularensis)*
*
Typhus Fever, louse-borne (Rickettsia prowazekii) and
flea-borne/endemic murine (Rickettsia typhi)
* Venezuelan equine
encephalitis*
* Yellow
Fever
