Role of Public Health

Question 1

List the diseases and communicable conditions which must be reported by health care providers to the local health department. Name the time frames for reporting each of the reportable conditions. List what information must be included in the reports listed above.

Answer 1

Call immediately

• Anthrax
• Botulism (adult and infant)
• Controlled substance OD
• Coronavirus
• Diphtheria
• Influenza
• Lead at any level
• Measles
• Meningitis
• Plague
• Poliomyelitis
• Rabies
• Smallpox
• Tularemia
• VISA
• VRSA
• Viral Hemorrhagic fever
• Yellow fever

Within 1 workday

• Brucellosis
• Candidia auris
• CRE
• Hep A
• Hep B (children <2yrs)
• HIV
• Influenza child death
• Mumps
• Pertussis
• Polio non-paralytic
• Q-fever
• Rubella
• Syphilis (primary and secondary stages only)
• TB
• Vibrio infection