Disease Reporting Resources and Information
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Other Reportable Diseases
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Immediately Reportable Diseases
(should be reported within 24 hours)
Below is a list of immediately reportable diseases.
To report an immediately reportable disease - contact
your
local
health department or
the Bureau of Epidemiology at the Utah Department of Health (1-801-538-6191
or 1-888-EPI-UTAH).
For details on "How To Report" a disease click here.
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Anthrax (cases and suspect cases)
- Botulism
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Cholera
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Diphtheria
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Haemophilus influenzae (invasive disease)
- Hepatitis
A
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Measles (Rubeola)
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Meningococcal disease
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Plague
- Poliomyelitis
(paralytic)
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Rabies
(human and animal)
- Rubella
- Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
- Smallpox
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- Staphylococcus aureus with resistance (VRSA) or intermediate resistance (VISA) to vancomycin isolated from any site
- Syphilis
(primary or secondary stage)
- Tuberculosis
- Tularemia
- Typhoid (cases and carriers)
- Viral
hemorrhagic fever
- Yellow fever
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Any unusual occurrence of infectious or communicable disease or any unusual or increased occurrence of any illness that may indicate a Bioterrorism event or public health hazard, including any single case or multiple cases of a newly recognized, emergent or re-emergent disease or disease-producing agent, including newly identified multi-drug resistant bacteria or a novel influenza strain such as a pandemic influenza strain.
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Immediately Reportable Diseases
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Other Reportable Diseases
(should be reported within 3 business days)
Below is a list of reportable diseases that should be reported within
3 business days after identifcation.
To report a reportable disease - contact your local health department or the Bureau of Epidemiology at the Utah Department of Health (1-801-538-6191 or 1-888-EPI-UTAH).
For details on "How To Report" a disease click here.
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
- Adverse
event resulting after smallpox vaccination
- Amebiasis
- Arbovirus
infection, including Saint Louis encephalitis and West Nile virus infection
- Brucellosis
- Campylobacteriosis
- Chancroid
- Chickenpox
- Chlamydia trachomatis infection
- Coccidioidomycosis
- Colorado tick fever
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other
transmissible human spongiform encephalopathies
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Cyclospora infection
- Dengue
fever
- Echinococcosis
- Erlichiosis (human granulocytic, human monocytic,
or unspecified)
- Encephalitis
- Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infection
- Giardiasis
- Gonorrhea (sexually transmitted and ophthalmia
neonatorum)
- Hansen disease (leprosy)
- Hantavirus infection and pulmonary syndrome
- Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (postdiarrheal)
- Hepatitis B (cases and carriers)
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- Hepatitis C (acute and chronic infection)
- Hepatitis (other viral)
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection
- Influenza-associated
hospitalization
- Influenza-associated
death in a person less than 18 years of age
- Legionellosis
- Listeriosis
- Lyme disease
- Malaria
- Meningitis
- Mumps
- Norovirus (formerly called Norwalk-like virus) infection
- Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)
- Pertussis
- Poliovirus infection (nonparalytic)
- Psittacosis
- Q Fever
- Relapsing fever (tick-borne or louse-borne)
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever
- Rubella (congenital syndrome)
- Salmonellosis
- Shigellosis
- Streptococcal disease (invasive, organism isolated from a normally sterile site)
- Tetanus
- Toxic-Shock Syndrome (staphylococcal or streptococcal)
- Trichinosis
- Vibriosis
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Cases that do not require immediate reporting may be reported by mail and sent to:
Utah Department of Health
Bureau of Epidemiology
PO Box 142104
Salt Lake City, Utah 84114-2104
801.538.6191
801.538.9923 (fax)
This page was updated on 10/27/2008 tj |
