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Utah Public Health Lab

 


Disease Reporting

DISEASES REPORTABLE IMMEDIATELY BY PHONE - 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 complete details, click on "How to Report" above.

  • Anthrax (cases and suspect cases)
  • Botulism
  • Cholera
  • Diphtheria
  • Haemophilus influenzae (invasive disease)
  • Hepatitis A
  • Measles (Rubeola)
  • Meningococcal disease
  • Plague
  • Poliomyelitis (paralytic)
  • Rabies (human and animal)
  • Rubella
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
  • Smallpox
  • 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
  • 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.

DISEASES REPORTABLE WITHIN 3 WORKING DAYS AFTER IDENTIFICATION - Contact your local health department office or the Bureau of Epidemiology at the Utah Department of Health (1-801-538-6191 or 1-888-EPI-UTAH). For complete details, click on "How to Report" above.

  • 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)
  • 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

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 09/27/2007 jrs

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