Diseases of Public Health Significance (DOPHS)

Report these diseases immediately, even if they are only considered to be “suspect cases”:

• Acute flaccid paralysis
• Anaplasmosis
• Anthrax
• Babesiosis
• Botulism
• Brucellosis
• Chickenpox (Varicella)
• Cholera
• Clostridium difficile infection, outbreaks in institutions and public hospitals
• Cyclosporiasis
• Diphtheria
• E. coli (see Verotoxin-producing E. coli)
• Food poisoning, all causes
• Gastroenteritis, outbreaks in institutions and public hospitals
• Group A Streptococcal disease, invasive
• Haemophilus Influenzae disease, all types, invasive
• Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
• Hemorrhagic fevers, including Ebola virus disease, Lassa fever, Marburg disease, and other viral causes
• Hepatitis A
• Influenza, novel, NOT seasonal, lab confirmed
• Legionellosis
• Listeriosis
• Measles
• Meningitis, acute, including bacterial, viral and other causes
• Meningococcal disease, invasive
• Mumps
• Novel Coronavirus, including Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)
• Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP)
• Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
• Plague
• Poliomyelitis, acute
• Powassan
• Rabies, human cases
  • For rabies animal exposures, call 1-888-221-2133 and press zero; fax reports to 519-482-7820 or 1-833-482-7820
• Respiratory infection outbreaks in institutions and public hospitals, including influenza
• Rubella
• Rubella, congenital syndrome
• Salmonellosis
• Shigellosis
• Smallpox and other Orthopoxviruses
• Tetanus
• Tuberculosis, active disease
• Tularemia
• Verotoxin-producing E. coli infection, including Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (HUS)
• West Nile Virus illness
• Yersiniosis

Please report the following diseases to HPPH within one business day:

• Amebiasis
• Blastomycosis
• Campylobacter enteritis
• Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE), infection or colonization
• Chickenpox (Varicella), community cases
• Cholera
• Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease, all types
• Cryptosporidiosis
• Echinococcus multilocularis infection
• Encephalitis, including primary viral, post-infectious, vaccine related, sub-acute sclerosing panencephalitis and unspecified
• Giardiasis, except asymptomatic cases
• Hepatitis B
• Influenza, seasonal, community cases
• Leprosy
• Lyme disease
• Paratyphoid Fever
• Pneumococcal disease, invasive (see streptococcal pneumoniae, invasive)
• Psittacosis/Ornithosis
• Q Fever
• Rubella, congenital syndrome
• Streptococcal pneumoniae, invasive
• Trichinosis
• Tuberculosis, latent infection (positive TB skin test or Interferon-Gamma Release Assay)
• Typhoid Fever

1. Reporting form for Positive Tuberculin Skin Test (TST) and/or Interferon Gamma Release Assay (IGRA)
2. Healthcare Provider Follow-Up Report: Positive Tuberculin Skin Test (TST) and/or Interferon Gamma Release Assay (IGRA)
3. Healthcare Provider Report: Tuberculosis (TB) Immigration Medical Surveillance

• Chancroid
• Chlamydia trachomatis infections
• Gonorrhoea
• Group B Streptococcal disease, neonatal
• Hepatitis C, viral
• Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
• Mpox
• Opthalmia neonatorum
• Syphilis (including Congenital Syphilis)