Reportable diseases are diseases considered to be of great public health importance. Local, state, and national agencies (for example, county and state health departments or the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) require that such diseases be reported when they are diagnosed by doctors or laboratories.
Reporting allows for the collection of statistics that show how often the disease occurs. This, in turn, helps researchers identify disease trends and track disease outbreaks. This can help control future outbreaks.
Alternative NamesNotifiable diseases
InformationAll states have a "reportable diseases" list. It is the responsibility of the health care provider, not the patient, to report cases of these diseases. Many of the diseases on the lists must also be reported to the U.S. Centers of Disease Control (CDC).
Reportable diseases are divided into several groups:
A typical state list may appear as follows. Diseases marked with an asterisk (*) were reportable to the CDC at the national level in 2006:
The state health department will attempt to find the source of many of these illnesses, such as food poisoning or amebiasis. In the case of sexually-transmitted diseases (STD) the state will attempt to locate sexual contacts to assure they are disease-free or are appropriately treated if they are already infected.
The information obtained by reporting allows the state to make informed decisions and laws concerning activities and the environment such as food handling, water purification, insect control, animal control, STD tracking, and immunization programs.
Please remember that the health care provider is bound by law to report these events. People with any of the diseases listed in the state's reporting schedule should make every effort to cooperate with the state health workers. Cooperation may help locate the source of an infection or prevent the spread of an epidemic.
ReferencesCenters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Update toSummary of Notifiable Diseases -- United States. MMMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2008;55(53):1-94.Reportable diseases are diseases considered to be of great public health importance. Local, state, and national agencies (for example, county and state health departments or the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) require that these diseases be reported when they are diagnosed by doctors or laboratories.
Reporting allows for the collection of statistics that show how often the disease occurs. This helps researchers identify disease trends and track disease outbreaks. This information can help control future outbreaks.
Alternative NamesNotifiable diseases
InformationAll states have a "reportable diseases" list. It is the responsibility of the health care provider, not the patient, to report cases of these diseases. Many diseases on the lists must also be reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Reportable diseases are divided into several groups:
A typical state list may appear as follows. Diseases marked with an asterisk (*) were reportable to the CDC at the national level in 2010:
The county or state health department will try to find the source of many of these illnesses, such as food poisoning or amebiasis. In the case of sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) the county or state will try to locate sexual contacts of infected people to make sure they are disease-free or are treated if they are already infected.
The information gained from reporting allows the county or state to make informed decisions and laws about activities and the environment, such as:
Please remember that the health care provider is bound by law to report these events. People with any of the diseases listed in a public health agency's reporting schedule should make every effort to cooperate with state health workers. Cooperation may help locate the source of an infection or prevent the spread of an epidemic.
ReferencesCenters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Final 2009 reports of nationally notifiable Infectious Diseases. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2010;59(32):1025-1039.
Reviewed ByReview Date: 06/09/2011
David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine; Jatin M. Vyas, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Assistant in Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
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There are several different reportable diseases mandated in Ohio. Some of these diseases include amebiasis, anthrax, botulism, brucellosis, cholera, diphtheria, giardiasis, and hantavirus.
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Some diseases are reported to officials, such as the CDC, because they might pose a risk to others by spreading.
You should report serious diseases to the proper authorities, like the Center for Disease Control, because if there is an outbreak of some disease they need to know so people can be warned and so the right precautions can be followed to help keep people safe and well.
Local / county health department communicable disease folks (nurses?) or epidemiologists can probably fax you a list -- it's really long. I've seen the one for the Indianapolis area and it has like 20-25 diseases I think. The one I saw had a chart of cases per month. It was just for our county. Reportable diseases are usually the same in all states I think.
The list maintained by the US CDC is much too long to copy here. See the related link, below. The laws about what disease are required to be reported are state laws, not Federal. So there will be variation from state to state.
OIE is the international organization that monitors outbreaks of important and emerging diseases in animals; it is a part of the United Nations. OIE maintains a list of reportable or notifiable diseases. All member nations of the UN have agreed to share information about outbreaks of these diseases so that bordering nations and other nations with strong import/export relationships to the affected nation can protect the health of their animal populations. This was put into action late last year with an outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease in Japan - nations that imported beef and live cattle from Japan closed their borders to the imports to help control the spread of the disease. Once Japan has eradicated FMD again from its nation, Japan will be able to export beef and live cattle again to areas that do not have FMD.
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