Healthcare Provider Resources

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.

 

Diseases of Public Health Significance

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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