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Reportable Diseases

Immediately

The following Category A Bioterror agents must be reported immediately to your local Health Department. Please call the 24/7 Beeper Number: 1-800-614-6842.

  1. Anthrax
  2. Botuusm
  3. Plague
  1. Smallpox
  2. Tularemia
  3. Viral Hemora Fever


24 Hours

These Category B Communicable Diseases must be reported within 24 Hours of Diagnosis to your local Health Department.

  1. Camplyobacter Infection
  2. Cholera
  3. Crytosporidosis
  4. Cyclosporiasis
  5. Diptheria
  6. Ecoli Shiga Toxin Producing Infection
  7. Vancomycin Resistant Enterococu From Normally Sterile Site
  8. Foodborn Cperfringens - Stapylococcal/Other/Unknown
  9. Hemolytic Inemic Syndrome
  10. Thrombotic / Thrombocytopenic Purpura
  11. Hemophilus Influenza Invasive Disease
  12. Hepatitis A
  13. Hepatitis B - Acute - IGG Core Antigens
  14. Hepatitis B - Perinatal
  15. Rubella Congenital Syndrome
  1. Listeriosis
  2. Measles
  3. Polio, paralytic
  4. Rabies - Human
  5. Rubella
  6. Salmonellosis
  7. Shigellosis
  8. Tuberculosis (TB)
  9. Typhoid / Acute
  10. Vibrio Infection - Other
  11. Vibrio Vulnificus
  12. Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
  13. Syphillis - Any form or latency
  14. Gonorrhea - Any form or site

7 Days

The following Category C Communicable Diseases must be reported within 7 days of diagnosis to the local Health Department

  1. AIDS
  2. Brucellosis
  3. Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (CTD/CID)
  4. Dengue
  5. Erlichosis Granulocytic
  6. Eruchosis Monocytic (E. Chaffensis)
  7. Encephautis Arboruiral (Cal, EEE, WNV, Other)
  8. Hanta Virus
  9. Hepatitis B Carrier
  10. Hepatitis C Acute
  11. HIV
  12. Legionella
  13. Leptospirosis
  14. Lyme Disease
  15. Malaria
  1. Meningitis, Pnemococcal
  2. Mumps
  3. Psittacosis
  4. Q Fever
  5. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (Erlichosis)
  6. Streptococcal Infection Group A, Invasive DS
  7. Tetanus
  8. Toxic Shock Syndrome
  9. Toxic Shock Syndrome - Streptocuccal
  10. Toxoplasmosis, Congenital
  11. Trichinosis
  12. Typhoid Carrier
  13. Typhus - Epidemic Couse Borne
  14. Yellow Fever

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

STDS - Report to Local Health Department Within 7 Days

  1. Chlamydia
  2. Lymphogranuloma Venerum
  1. NGU - Nongonocuccal Urethritis
  2. PID - Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

General Tips, Information & Forms

Surveillence Forms are available online at:
http://www.cdc.gov/epo/dphsi/forms/index.htm or
http://www.epi.state.nc.us/epi/gcdc.html

Comfirmatory Lab Results are required before the Local Health Department can notify the North Carolina Communicable Disease Branch.

In addition to the lab results, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services form DHHS 2124 must be completed. For instructions on completing the card and to download a sample form please visit http://www.rpmhd.org/pro/CDReportCard.htm.




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