105. Mass. Code Regs. 300.100. - Diseases Reportable to Local Boards of Health

Household members, physicians or other providers must report cases or suspect cases of the following diseases to the local board of health immediately or within 24 hours of diagnosis.  When possible, the patient’s name, address, sex, age, date of birth, place of employment, school, and disease, must be included in the report.  

• Anaplasmosis 
• Amebiasis 
• Anthrax 
• Arbovirus infection, including but not limited to, infection caused by dengue, Eastern equine encephalitis virus, West Nile virus and yellow fever virus 
• Babesiosis 
• Botulism 
• Brucellosis 
• Campylobacteriosis 
• Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) 
• Cholera 
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease or variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease 
• Cryptococcosis 
• Cryptosporidiosis 
• Cyclosporiasis 
• Diphtheria 
• E. coli O157:H7 infection 
• Ehrlichiosis 
• Encephalitis, any cause 
• Food poisoning and toxicity (includes poisoning by mushroom toxins, ciguatera, scombrotoxin, tetrodotoxin, paralytic shellfish toxin and amnesic shellfish toxin, and other toxins) 
• Giardiasis 
• Glanders 
• Group A streptococcus, invasive infection 
• Group B streptococcus, invasive infection 
• Haemophilus influenzae, invasive infection 
• Hansen's disease (Leprosy) 
• Hantavirus infection 
• Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) 
• Hepatitis A 
• Hepatitis B 
• Hepatitis C 
• Hepatitis, infectious, not otherwise specified 
• Influenza 
• Legionellosis 
• Leptospirosis 
• Listeriosis 
• Lyme disease 
• Lymphocytic choriomeningitis 
• Malaria 
• Measles 
• Melioidosis 
• Meningitis, bacterial, community-acquired 
• Meningitis, viral (aseptic) or other infectious (non-bacterial) 
• Meningococcal disease, invasive infection (N. meningitidis) 
• Monkeypox or infection with any other orthopox virus in humans 
• Mumps 
• Noroviruses 
• Pertussis 
• Plague 
• Poliomyelitis 
• Psittacosis 
• Q Fever 
• Rabies in humans 
• Reye syndrome 
• Rheumatic fever 
• Rickettsialpox 
• Rocky Mountain spotted fever 
• Rubella 
• Salmonellosis 
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and infection with the SARS-associated coronavirus 
• Shigellosis 
• Shiga toxin-producing organisms isolated from humans, including enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) 
• Smallpox 
• Streptococcus pneumoniae, invasive infection 
• Tetanus 
• Toxic shock syndrome 
• Toxoplasmosis 
• Trichinosis 
• Tularemia 
• Typhoid Fever 
• Typhus 
• Varicella (chickenpox) 
• Vibriosis (non- Cholera) 
• Viral hemorrhagic fevers, including but not limited to infection caused by Ebola virus, Marburg virus and other filoviruses, arenaviruses, bunyaviruses and flaviviruses 
• Yersiniosis