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Reporting of suspected or confirmed communicable diseases is mandated under the New York State Sanitary Code 2.10,2.14). The primary responsibility for reporting rests with the physician; moreover, laboratories (PHL 2102), school nurses 2.12), day care center directors, nursing homes/hospitals 405.3d) and state institutions 2.10a) or other locations providing health services 2.12) are also required to report the diseases listed below. NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Communicable Disease Reporting Requirements Anaplasmosis Amebiasis Animal bites for which rabies prophylaxis is given1 Anthrax2 Arboviral infection3 Babesiosis Botulism2 Brucellosis2 Campylobacteriosis Chancroid Chlamydia trachomatis infection Cholera Cyclosporiasis Diphtheria E.coli O157:H7 infection4 Ehrlichiosis Encephalitis Foodborne Illness Giardiasis Glanders2 Gonococcal infection Haemophilus influenzae5 (invasive disease) Hantavirus disease Hemolytic uremic Hepatitis A Hepatitis A in a food handler Hepatitis B (specify acute or chronic) Hepatitis C (specify acute or chronic) Pregnant hepatitis B carrier Herpes infection, infants aged 60 days or younger Hospital associated infections (as defined in section 2.2 Influenza, laboratory-confirmed Legionellosis Listeriosis Lyme disease venereum Malaria Measles Melioidosis2 Meningitis Aseptic or viral Haemophilus Meningococcal Other (specify type) Meningococcemia Monkeypox Mumps Pertussis Plague2 Poliomyelitis Psittacosis Q Fever2 Rabies1 Rocky Mountain spotted fever Rubella (including congenital rubella Salmonellosis Severe Acute Respiratory (SARS) Shigatoxin-producing E.coli4 (STEC) Shigellosis4 Smallpox2 Staphylococcus aureus6 (due to strains showing reduced susceptibility or resistance to vancomycin) Staphylococcal enterotoxin B poisoning2 WHO SHOULD REPORT? Physicians, nurses, laboratory directors, infection control practitioners, health care facilities, state institutions, schools. WHERE SHOULD REPORT BE MADE? Report to local health department where patient resides. Contact Person Name Address Phone Fax WHEN SHOULD REPORT BE MADE? Within 24 hours of diagnosis: • Phone diseases in bold type, • Mail case report, DOH-389, for all other diseases. • In New York City use form PD-16. SPECIAL NOTES • Diseases listed in bold type warrant prompt action and should be reported immediately to local health departments by phone followed by submission of the confidential case report form (DOH-389). In NYC use case report form PD-16. • In addition to the diseases listed above, any unusual disease (defined as a newly apparent or emerging disease or that could possibly be caused by a transmissible infectious agent or microbial toxin) is reportable. • Outbreaks: while individual cases of some diseases streptococcal sore throat, head lice, impetigo, scabies and pneumonia) are not reportable, a cluster or outbreak of cases of any communicable disease is a reportable event. • Cases of HIV infection, HIV-related illness and AIDS are reportable on form DOH-4189 which may be obtained by contacting: Division of Epidemiology, Evaluation and Research P.O. Box 2073, ESP Station Albany, NY 12220-2073 (518) 474-4284 In NYC: New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene For HIV/AIDS reporting, call: (212) 442-3388 1. Local health department must be notified prior to initiating rabies prophylaxis. 2. Diseases that are possible indicators of bioterrorism. 3. Including, but not limited to, infections caused by eastern equine encephalitis virus, western equine encephalitis virus, West Nile virus, St. Louis encephalitis virus, La Crosse virus, Powassan virus, Jamestown Canyon virus, dengue and yellow fever. 4. Positive shigatoxin test results should be reported as presumptive evidence of disease. 5. Only report cases with positive cultures from blood, CSF, joint, peritoneal or pleural fluid. Do not report cases with positive cultures from skin, saliva, sputum or throat. 6. Proposed addition to list. 7. Any non-treponemal test ≥1:16 or any positive prenatal or delivery test regardless of titer or any primary or secondary stage disease, should be reported by phone; all others may be reported by mail. 8. Including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Cases should be reported directly to the New York State Department of Health Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias Registry at (518) 473-7817 upon suspicion of disease. In NYC, cases should also be reported to the NYCDOHMH. 9. Persons with vaccinia infection due to contact transmission and persons with the following complications from vaccination; eczema vaccinatum, erythema multiforme major or Stevens- Johnson fetal vaccinia, generalized vaccinia, inadvertent inoculation, ocular vaccinia, post-vaccinial encephalitis or encephalomyelitis, progressive vaccinia, pyogenic infection of the infection site, and any other serious adverse events. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For more information on disease reporting, call your local health department or the New York State Department of Health Bureau of Communicable Disease Control at (518) 473-4439 or (866) 881-2809 after hours. In New York City, 1 (866) NYC-DOH1. To obtain reporting forms (DOH-389), call (518) 474-0548. PLEASE POST THIS CONSPICUOUSLY Streptococcal infection (invasive disease) 5 Group A beta-hemolytic strep Group B strep Streptococcus pneumoniae Syphilis, specify stage7 Tetanus Toxic shock Transmissable spongiform encephalopathies8 (TSE) Trichinosis Tuberculosis current disease (specify site) Tularemia2 Typhoid Vaccinia disease9 Vibriosis6 Viral hemorrhagic fever2 Yersiniosis DOH-389 (2/11) p2 of 2