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Title 17, California Code of Regulations, Sections 2500, 2593, 2641-2643, and 2800-2812
Reportable Diseases and Conditions

2500. Reporting to the Local Health Authority.

2500(b) It shall be the duty of every health care provider, knowing of or in attendance on a case or suspected case of any of the diseases or conditions listed below, to report to the local health officer for the jurisdiction where the patient resides. Where no health care provider is in attendance, any individual having knowledge of a person who is suspected to be suffering from one of the diseases or conditions listed below may make such a report to the local health officer for the jurisdiction where the patient resides.

2500(c) The administrator of each health facility, clinic or other setting where more than one health care provider may know of a case, a suspected case, or an outbreak of disease within the facility shall establish and be responsible for administrative procedures to assure that reports are made to the local health officer.

2500(a)(14) "Health care provider" means a physican and surgeon, a veterinarian, a podiatrist, a nurse practitioner, a physician assistant, a registered nurse, a nurse midwife, a school nurse, an infection control practitioner, a medical examiner, a coroner, or a dentist.

Urgency Reporting Requirements [17 CCR 2500 (h) (i)]

Emergency Phone = Report IMMEDIATELY by telephone.
Dial (530) 225-5591 on weekdays between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., and (530) 225-3767 after hours, weekends, and holidays.

Phone Fax Mail = Report within 1 WORKING DAY of identification by Phone, Fax (530) 225-5074, or mail to Shasta County Public Health, 2650 Breslauer Way, Redding, CA 96001.

All other Diseases/Conditions should be reported by Phone, Fax or mail within 7 calendar days of identification using the Confidential Morbidity Report form.

Please note: If you are reporting HIV/AIDS, use the Adult HIV/AIDS Confidential Case Report form.

Reportable Communicable Diseases [17 CCR 2500 (j)(1), 2641-2643]:

UPDATED 6/15/07

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
(HIV infection only: see "Human Immunodeficiency Virus")
Phone Fax Mail Amebiasis
Emergency Phone Anthrax
Emergency Phone Avian Influenza (human)
Phone Fax Mail Babesiosis
Emergency Phone Botulism (Infant, Foodborne, Wound)
Emergency Phone Brucellosis
Phone Fax Mail Campylobacteriosis
Chancroid
Phone Fax Mail Chickenpox (only hospitalizations and deaths)
Chlamydial Infections, including lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV)
Emergency Phone Cholera
Emergency Phone Ciguatera Fish Poisoning
Coccidioidomycosis
Phone Fax Mail Colorado Tick Fever
Phone Fax Mail Conjunctivitis, Acute Infectious of the Newborn, Specify Etiology
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and other Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE)
Phone Fax Mail Cryptosporidiosis
Cysticercosis or taeniasis
Emergency Phone Dengue
Emergency Phone Diarrhea of the Newborn, Oubreaks
Emergency Phone Diphtheria
Emergency Phone Domoic Acid Poisoning (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning)
Ehrlichiosis
Phone Fax Mail Encephalitis, Specify Etiology: Viral, Bacterial, Fungal, Parasitic
Emergency Phone Escherichia coli: shiga toxin producing (STEC) including E. coli O157
Phone Fax Mail Foodborne Disease (Report immediately by telephone when two or more cases or suspected cases from separate households are suspected to have the same source of illness.)
Giardiasis
Gonococcal Infections
Phone Fax Mail Haemophilus influenzae invasive disease (report an incident of less than 15 years of age)
Emergency Phone Hantavirus Infections
Emergency Phone Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
Phone Fax Mail Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B (specify acute case or chronic)
Hepatitis C (specify acute case or chronic)
Hepatitis D (Delta)
Hepatitis, other, acute
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) (Effective April 17, 2006, HIV is reportable by name.)
Influenza deaths (report an incident of less than 18 years of age)
Kawasaki Syndrome (Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome)
Legionellosis
Leprosy (Hansen Disease)
Leptospirosis
Phone Fax Mail Listeriosis
Lyme Disease
Phone Fax Mail Malaria
Phone Fax Mail Measles (Rubeola)
Phone Fax Mail Meningitis, Specify Etiology: Viral, Bacterial, Fungal, Parasitic
Emergency Phone Meningococcal Infections
Mumps
Emergency Phone Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)
Phone Fax Mail Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
Emergency Phone Plague, Human or Animal
Phone Fax Mail Poliomyelitis, Paralytic
Phone Fax Mail Psittacosis
Phone Fax Mail Q Fever
Emergency Phone Rabies, Human or Animal
Phone Fax Mail Relapsing Fever
Rheumatic Fever, Acute
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Rubella (German Measles)
Rubella Syndrome, Congenital
Phone Fax Mail Salmonellosis (Other than Typhoid Fever)
Emergency Phone Scombroid Fish Poisoning
Emergency Phone Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Phone Fax Mail Shigellosis
Emergency Phone Smallpox (Variola)
Phone Fax Mail Streptococcal Infections (Outbreaks of Any Type and Individual Cases in Food Handlers and Dairy Workers Only)
Phone Fax Mail Syphilis
Tetanus
Toxic Shock Syndrome
Toxoplasmosis
Phone Fax Mail Trichinosis
Phone Fax Mail Tuberculosis
Emergency Phone Tularemia
Phone Fax Mail Typhoid Fever, Cases and Carriers
Typhus Fever
Phone Fax Mail Vibrio Infections
Emergency Phone Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (e.g., Crimean-Congo, Ebola, Lassa and Marburg viruses)
Phone Fax Mail Water-Associated Disease (e.g., Swimmer's Itch and Hot Tub Rash)
Phone Fax Mail West Nile Virus (WNV) Infection
Emergency Phone Yellow Fever
Phone Fax Mail Yersiniosis
Emergency Phone OCCURRENCE of ANY UNUSUAL DISEASE
Emergency Phone OUTBREAKS of ANY DISEASE (Including diseases not listed in Section 2500). Specify if institutional and/or open community.

Reportable Noncommunicable Diseases and Conditions [17 CCR 2800-2812 and 2593(b)]:

  • Diseases Characterized by Lapses of Consciousness
  • Cancer [except (1) basal and squamous skin cancer unless occuring on genitalia, and (2) carcinoma in-situ and CIN III of the cervix]
  • Pesticide-related illness or injury (known or suspected cases)

Phone, Fax & Address for Reporting:

Phone:
(530) 225-5591 on weekdays between 8 am and 5 pm
(530) 225-3767 after hours, weekends and holidays

Fax:
(530) 225-5074

Mailing Address:
Shasta County Public Health, 2650 Breslauer Way, Redding, CA 96001

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