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Or. Admin. R. 333-018-0015 - What Is to Be Reported and When

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Health care providers must report all suspected and actual human cases, and licensed laboratories must report all test results indicative of the following diseases, infections, microorganisms, and conditions to the local public health administrator; if the administrator cannot be reached within the specified time limit, the report must be made directly to the authority.

  • Report the following immediately:
    • Anthrax
    • Botulism
    • Diphtheria
    • Novel influenza
    • Plague
    • Poliomyelitis
    • Human rabies
    • Measles
    • SARS
    • Rubella
    • Smallpox
    • Tularemia
    • Vibrio cholera O1, O139, or toxigenic
    • Hemorrhagic fever caused by viruses of the fiolviris (e.g., Ebola) or arena virus (e.g., Lassa)
    • Yellow fever
    • Marine intoxication
    • Any known or suspected common-source outbreaks
    • Any uncommon illness of potential public health significance
  • Report the following within 24 hours:
    • Haemophilus influenza
    • Neisseria meningitides
    • Pesticide poisoning
  • Report the following within one local public health working day:
    • Pertussis
    • Borrelia
    • Brucella
    • Campylobacteriosis
    • Chlamydia
    • Psittacosis
    • Chlamydia trachomatis
    • Tetanus
    • Q fever
    • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
    • Cryptococcus
    • Cryptosporidiosis
    • Cyclospororsis
    • Enterobacteriaceae-family bacteria found to be non-susceptible to any carbapenem antibiotic
    • E. coli
    • Giardiasis
    • Chanchroid
    • Hantavirus
    • Hepatitis A
    • Hepatitis B, acute or chronic
    • Hepatitis C
    • Hepatitis D
    • Hepatitis E
    • HIV infection (does not apply to anonymous testing)
    • AIDS
    • Death of a person over 18 years of age with laboratory-confirmed influenza
    • Lead poisoning
    • Legionella
    • Leptospira
    • Listeria monocytogenes
    • Mumps
    • Tuberculosis
    • Gonococcal infections
    • Pelvic inflammatory disease
    • Malaria
    • Rickettsia
    • Salmonella
    • Shigella
    • Taenia solium
    • Syphilis
    • Trichinosis
    • Yersinia, other than pestis
    • Any infection that is typically anthropod vector-borne (e.g., dengue fever)
    • A human bitten by any other mammal
    • Hemolytic uremic syndrome
  • Report the following within seven days:
    • Any blood level tests including the result
    • The results of all tests of CD4 + T-lymphocyte absolute counts
    • The percent of total lymphocytes that are CD4 positive HIV nucleic acid tests

Current as of June 2015