Know Your ABCs: a Quick Guide to Reportable Infectious Diseases in Ohio

from the Ohio Administrative Code 3701-3-02 & 3701-3-13

 

Class A Diseases

(1)  diseases of major public health concern because of the severity of disease or potential for epidemic spread -

report by telephone immediately upon recognition that a case, a suspected case, or a positive laboratory result exists

      Anthrax                                        Measles                                                Rubella (not congenital)                                                Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF)

      Botulism, foodborne                Meningococcal disease                     Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)            Yellow Fever

      Cholera                                      Plague                                                    Smallpox

Diphtheria                                 Rabies, human                                     Tularemia
 

Any unexpected pattern of cases, suspected cases, deaths or increased incidence of any other disease of major public health           concern, because of the severity of disease or potential for epidemic spread, which may indicate a newly recognized infectious          agent, outbreak, epidemic, related public health hazard or act of bioterrorism.
 

(2)  diseases of pubic health concern needing timely response because of potential for epidemic spread report by the end of the next business day after the existence of a case, a suspected case, or a positive laboratory result is known

Arboviral neuroinvasive and non-neuroinvasive disease

    Eastern equine encephalitis virus disease

    LaCrosse virus disease (other California serogroup virus disease)

    Powassan virus disease

    St. Louis encephalitis virus disease

    West Nile virus disease (also current infection)

    Western equine encephalitis virusdisease

    Other arthropod-borne disease

Chancroid

Cyclosporiasis

Coccidioidomycosis

Dengue

E. coli O157:H7 and other enterohemorrhagic (Shiga toxin-producing) E. coli

Foodborne disease outbreaks

Granuloma inguinale

Haemophilus influenzae (invasive disease)

Hantavirus

Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS)

Hepatitis A

Hepatitis B, perinatal

Influenza-associated pediatric mortality

Legionnaires' disease

Listeriosis

Lymphogranuloma venereum

Malaria

Meningitis, aseptic, including viral meningoencephalitis

Mumps

Pertussis

Poliomyelitis (including vaccine-associated cases)

Psittacosis

Q fever

Rubella (congenital)

Salmonellosis

Shigellosis

Staphylococcus aureus, with resistance or intermediate resistance to Vancomycin (VRSA, VISA)

Syphilis

Tetanus

Tuberculosis, including multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB)

Typhoid fever

Waterborne disease outbreaks

 

(3)  diseases of significant public health concern -- report by the end of the work week after the existence of a case, a suspected case, or a positive laboratory result is known

Amebiasis

Botulism, wound

Botulism, infant

Brucellosis

Campylobacteriosis

Chlamydia infections(urethritis, epididymitis, cervicitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, neonatal conjunctivitis and pneumonia)

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)

Cryptosporidiosis

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) (congenital)

Ehrlichiosis

Encephalitis, other viral

Encephalitis, post- infection

Giardiasis

Gonococcal infections (urethritis, cervicitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, pharyngitis, arthritis, endocarditis, meningitis and neonatal conjunctivitis)

Hepatitis B, non perinatal

Hepatitis C

Hepatitis D (delta hepatitis)

Hepatitis E

Herpes (congenital)

Kawasaki disease (mucocutaneous lymph  node syndrome)

Leprosy (Hansen disease)

Leptospirosis

Lyme disease

Meningitis, including other bacterial

Mycobacterial disease, other than tuberculosis (MOTT)

Reye syndrome

Rheumatic fever

Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF)

Streptococcal disease, group A, invasive (IGAS)

 Streptococcal disease, group B, in newborn

Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS)

Streptococcus pneumoniae, invasive disease (ISP)

Toxic shock syndrome (TSS)

Toxoplasmosis (congenital)

Trichinosis

Typhus fever

Varicella

Vibriosis

Yersiniosis

 

Class B Disease - the number of cases is to be reported by the close of each working week

Influenza



Class C Diseases - report an outbreak, unusual incidence, or epidemic by the end of the next working day

Blastomycosis

Conjunctivitis, acute

Histoplasmosis

Nosocomial infections of  any type

Pediculosis

Scabies

Sporotrichosis

Staphylococcal skin infections

Toxoplasmosis

Outbreak, unusual incidence, or epidemic of other infectious diseases of known etiology not categorized as Class A, Class B or Class C

Except as otherwise required for the Class A(1) diseases, reports of cases and suspect cases and positive laboratory results shall be in writing, and shall include the name and address of the case, suspect case, or person from whom the specimen was taken.  A Board of Health may accept verbal reports by telephone or other electronic systems approved by the Director within the same time limitations. Reports shall include supplementary information relevant to the case or laboratory reports as needed to complete official surveillance forms provided or approved by the Director.

Cases of AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome), AIDS-related conditions, HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection, perinatal exposure to HIV, and CD4 T-lymphocytes counts <200 or 14% must be reported on forms and in a manner prescribed by the Director.