What Are Reportable Communicable Diseases?

Physicians, nurses, dentists; day care, school and university personnel; and health care and laboratory personnel ARE REQUIRED BY LAW TO REPORT the following infectious diseases to the local health department:

In Macon County reports must be made to the Communicable Disease Investigator at (217) ?

Class I (a)

The following diseases shall be reported immediately (within 3 hours) upon initial clinical suspicion of the disease to the local health authorities, who shall then report to the Department immediately (within 3 hours):

• Anthrax
• Botulism, foodborne
• Plague
• Q-fever
• Smallpox
• Tularemia
• Any suspected bioterrorism threat of event

Class I (b)

The following diseases shall be reported as soon as possible during normal business hours, but within 24 hours (i.e., within 8 regularly scheduled business hours after identifying the case), to the local health authorities, who shall then report to the Department as soon as possible, but within 24 hours:

• Any unusual case or cluster of cases that may indicate a public health hazard Botulism, infant, wound, and other
• Cholera
• Diarrhea of the newborn
• Diphtheria
• Enteric Escherichia coli infections
• Foodborne or waterborne illness
• Haemophilus influenzae, meningitis and other invasive disease
• Hemolytic uremic syndrome, post-diarrheal
• Hepatitis A
• Measles
• Neisseria meningitides, meningitis and invasive
• Pertussis
• Poliomyelitis
• Rabies, human
• Rabies, potential human exposure
• Staphylococcus aureus infections with intermediate or high level resistance to vancomycin*
• Streptococcal infections, Group A, invasive (including TSS) and sequelae to Group A streptococcal infections (rheumatic fever, acute glomerulonephritis and scarlet fever)
• Typhoid fever*
• Typhus

Class II

The following diseases shall be reported as soon as possible during normal business hours, but within 7 days, to the local health authority which shall then report to the Department within 7 days:

• AIDS
• Amebiasis*
• Blastomycosis
• Brucellosis
• Campylobacteriosis*
• Chancroid
• Chickenpox
• Chlamydia
• Cryptosporidiosis
• Cyclosporidiosis
• Ehrlichiosis, human granulocytic
• Ehrlichiosis, human monocytic
• Encephalitis
• Giardiasis
• Gonorrhea
• Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
• Hepatitis B*
• Hepatitis C*
• Hepatitis, viral, other*
• Histoplasmosis
• HIV infection
• Legionnaires' Disease
• Leprosy
• Leptospirosis
• Listeriosis
• Lyme Disease
• Malaria
• Meningitis, aseptic (including arboviral infections)
• Mumps
• Ophthalmia neonatorum (gonococcal)
• Psittacosis
• Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
• Rubella (including congenital Rubella Syndrome)
• Salmonellosis* (other than Typhoid fever)
• Shigellosis*
• Staphylococcus aureus infection, toxic shock syndrome
• Staphylococcus aureus infections, occurring in infants under 28 days of age
• Streptococcal infections, group B, invasive disease, of the newborn
• Streptococcus pneumoniae, invasive disease (including antibiotic susceptibility test results)
• Syphilis
• Tetanus
• Trichinosis
• Yersiniosis

* Cases of these are confirmed by appropriate laboratory tests before being reported
 

Statistics of communicable diseases (outside link)