Healthcare Practitioners have a duty to report diseases of public health significance under the Health Protection and Promotion Act. Practitioners include chiropractors, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, physicians, optometrists and naturopaths.
Reports of Diseases of Public Health Significance should be faxed as soon as possible to 519-376-4152.
Diseases marked “*” should also be reported verbally, as soon as possible.
Monday-Friday 8:30-4:30 – 519-376-9420 ext. 6
After Hours and Holidays – 519-376-5420
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP)
Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFIs)
Amebiasis
Anthrax *
Avian Influenza (cases, contacts) *
Blastomycosis
Botulism *
Brucellosis *
Campylobacter enteritis
Carbapenamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae
Chancroid
Chickenpox (Varicella)
Chlamydia trachomatis infections
Cholera *
Clostridium difficile infection outbreaks *
COVID-19
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, all types
Cryptosporidiosis
Cyclosporiasis
Diphtheria *
Echinoccoccus multilocularis infection
Encephalitis
Food poisoning, all causes
Gastrointestinal infection Outbreaks *
Giardiasis, except asymptomatic cases
Gonorrhoea
Group A Streptococcal disease, invasive *
Group B Streptococcal disease, neonatal
Haemophilus influenza disease, all types, invasive *
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome *
Hemorrhagic fevers (e.g. Ebola, Lassa Fever) *
Hepatitis A, viral *
Hepatitis B, viral
Hepatitis C , viral
Influenza (seasonal)
Legionellosis
Leprosy
Listeriosis
Lyme Disease
Measles *
Meningitis, acute (bacterial, viral, other) *
Meningococcal disease, invasive *
Monkeypox *
Mumps *
Novel Coronaviruses (e.g. SARS, MERS) *
Ophthalmia neonatorum
Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) *
Paratyphoid Fever
Pertussis (Whooping Cough) *
Plague *
Pneumococcal disease, invasive
Poliomyelitis, acute *
Psittacosis/Ornithosis
Q Fever
Rabies *
Respiratory infection (institutional outbreaks) *
Rubella *
Rubella, Congenital Syndrome *
Salmonellosis
Shigellosis
Smallpox and other orthopoxviruses *
Syphilis
Tetanus
Trichinosis
Tuberculosis, all sites *
Tularemia *
Typhoid Fever
Verotoxin-producing E. coli infection
West Nile Virus Illness
Yersiniosis
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