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Reportable Diseases
Mandated reporters, such as health care providers, hospitals and laboratories must report any suspected or confirmed case of these diseases to CCDPH within the number of days or hours indicated in parentheses.
To report a disease to CCDPH, call (708) 492-2150 during business hours or after hours, call (708) 492-2000 and press 3.
- Any suspected bioterrorist threat (immediately)
- Any unusual case or cluster of cases that may indicate a public health hazard(immediately)
- AIDS* (7 days) [to report a case of HIV or AIDS, call (708) 492-2171 during regular business hours]
- Anthrax (immediately)
- Arboviral Infections (including, but not limited to, West Nile Virus. California encephalitis, and St. Louis encephalitis) (7 days)
- Botulism, foodborne (immediately)
- Botulism, infant, wound, other (24 hours)
- Brucellosis (7 days, unless bioterrorism suspected, then immediately)
- Chancroid (7 days)
- Chickenpox (24 hours)
- Chlamydia (7 days)
- Cholera (24 hours)
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) (7 days)
- Cryptosporidiosis (7 days)
- Cyclosporiasis (7 days)
- Diphtheria (24 hours)
- Ehrlichiosis and Anaplasmosis (7 days)
- Enteric E. coli infections (E. coli O157:H7 and other shiga-toxin producing E. coli, enterotoxigenic E. coli, enteropathogenic E. coli, and enteroinvasive E. coli) (24 hours)
- Foodborne or waterborne illness (24 hours)
- Giardiasis (7 days)
- Gonorrhea (7 days)
- Haemophilus influenzae, invasive (24 hours)
- Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (24 hours)
- Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), post diarrheal (24 hours)
- Hepatitis A (24 hours), B (7 days), C (7 days), D (7 days)
- Histoplasmosis (7 days)
- HIV infection (7 days) [to report a case of HIV or AIDS, call (708) 492-2171 during regular business hours]
- Influenza, deaths in <18 yr olds (7 days)
- Influenza A, novel virus (immediately)
- Legionellosis (7 days)
- Leprosy (7 days)
- Leptospirosis (7 days)
- Listeriosis (7 days)
- Lyme disease (7 days)
- Malaria (7 days)
- Measles (24 hours)
- Mumps (24 hours)
- N. meningitidis, invasive (24 hours)
- Ophthalmia neonatorum (gonococcal) (7 days)
- Pertussis (whooping cough) (24 hours)
- Plague (immediately)
- Poliomyelitis (24 hours)
- Psittacosis (7 days)
- Q fever (7 days, unless bioterrorism suspected, then immediately)
- Rabies, human and potential human exposure (24 hours)
- Reye syndrome (7 days)
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever (7 days)
- Rubella (24 hours)
- Salmonellosis, other than typhoid (7 days)
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) (immediately)
- Shigellosis (7 days)
- Smallpox (immediately)
- Smallpox vaccination, complications of (24 hours)
- S. aureus, Methicillin resistant (MRSA) clusters in a community setting or colonization/infection in infants <61 days (24 hours)
- S. aureus infections with intermediate or high level resistance to vancomycin (24 hours)
- Streptococcal infections, Group A, invasive and sequelae to Group A streptococcal infections (24 hours)
- S. pneumoniae, invasive in those <5 yrs (7 days)
- Syphilis (7 days)
- Tetanus (7 days)
- Toxic shock syndrome due to S. aureus (7 days)
- Trichinosis (7 days)
- Tuberculosis (TB) (7 days)
- Tularemia (7 days unless bioterrorism suspected then immediately)
- Typhoid fever (24 hours)
- Typhus (24 hours)
- Vibriosis (non cholera) (7 days)
- Yersiniosis (7 days)