Download 145 Reportable Diseases

Reportable Diseases
(Protection and Promotion Act)
The following diseases (and influenza in institutions) should be reported immediately
to the Medical Officer of Health by telephone at 613-549-1232 or 1-800-267-7875.
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Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP)
Anthrax
Botulism
Brucellosis
Cholera
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI)
outbreaks in public hospitals
Cryptosporidiosis
Cyclosporiasis
Diphtheria
Encephalitis – primary, viral
Food poisoning, all causes
Gastroenteritis, institutional outbreaks
Giardiasis, except asymptomatic cases
Group A Streptococcal infections,
invasive
Haemophilus influenzae b disease,
invasive
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
Hemorrhagic fevers, including:
i. Ebola virus disease
ii. Marburg virus disease
iii. Other viral causes
Hepatitis A
Lassa Fever
Legionellosis
Listeriosis
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Measles
Meningitis, bacterial
Meningococcal disease, invasive
Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP)
Paratyphoid Fever
Plague
Poliomyelitis, acute
Q Fever
Rabies
Respiratory outbreaks in institutions
Rubella
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
(SARS)
Shigellosis
Smallpox
Tularemia
Typhoid Fever
Verotoxin-producing E. coli infection
indicator conditions including Hemolytic
Uremic Syndrome
West Nile Virus Illnesses:
i.West Nile Virus Fever
ii.West Nile Virus Neurological
Yellow Fever
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These diseases are to be reported the next working day.
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
(HIV is reportable as the agent of AIDS)
• Amebiasis
• Campylobacter enteritis
• Chancroid
• Chickenpox (Varicella)
• Chlamydia trachomatis infections
• Encephalitis, including:
i. Post-infectious
ii. Vaccine-related
iii. Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
iv. Unspecified
• Gonorrhea
• Group B Streptococcal infections, neonatal
• Hepatitis B
• Hepatitis C
• Hepatitis, viral
• Influenza
• Leprosy
• Lyme Disease
• Malaria
• Meningitis, acute
i. viral
ii. other
• Mumps
• Ophthalmia neonatorum
• Pertussis (Whooping cough)
• Psittacosis/Ornithosis
• Rubella, congenital syndrome
• Salmonellosis
• Streptococcus pneumoniae, invasive
• Syphilis
• Tetanus
• Transmissible Spongiform
Encephalopathy including:
i.Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease, all types
• Trichinosis
• Tuberculosis
• Yersiniosis
Source:
Ontario Regulation 559/91 (Specification of Reportable Disease)
Health Protection and Promotion Act, RSO 1990
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Infectious Disease Protocol, 2013, Toronto, ON:
Queen’s Printer for Ontario, 2013.
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Rev. 24/02/14
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