Communicable Disease Reporting


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Accurate, timely, and complete reporting of infectious disease protects the public's health. Genesee County physicians, laboratory scientists, infection control practitioners, and other care providers play an essential part in this effort and are required to provide the Genesee County Health Department with information about patients with reportable communicable disease. Lab confirmed and clinical diagnoses are reportable by time intervals specified in the Michigan Communicable Disease Rules, Section 5111 of Act 368 of the Public Acts of 1978, as amended 333.5111 of the Michigan Compiled Laws. Reporting generates follow up activity by public health staff which assists in identifying outbreaks not always evident to an individual provider. The information also assists with state, national and international disease surveillance efforts.

Phone (810) 257-1017. 

The following conditions are required to be reported to the local health department by physicians:

IMMEDIATELY

Any unusual occurrence, outbreak, or epidemic of any disease, condition and/or nosocomial infection

WITHIN 24 HOURS

AIDS

Anthrax

Botulism

Chancroid

Cholera

Diphtheria

Gonorrhea

Granuloma inguinale

H. influenzae (meningitis or epiglottitis)

Hepatitis B in a pregnant woman

Lymphogranuloma venereum

Measles

Meningococcal disease (meningitis or meningococcemia)

Pertussis

Plague

Poliomyelitis

Rabies(human)

Syphilis

Tuberculosis

Viral hemorrhagic fevers

 

WITHIN THREE WORKING DAYS

Amebiasis

Blastomycosis

Brucellosis

Camphylobacter enteritis

Chlamydia (genital)

Coccidioidomycosis

Cryptococcosis

Cryptosporidiosis

Cyclosporiasis

Dengue fever

Ehrlichiosis

Encephalitis, viral

Giardiasis

Guillian-Barre’ syndrome

Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome

Hemolytic-uremic syndrome

Hepatitis

Histoplasmosis

Kawasaki disease

Legionellosis

Leprosy

Leptospirosis

Listeriosis

Lyme disease

Malaria

Meningitis (bacterial & viral)

Mumps

Psittacosis

Q fever

Reye’s syndrome

Rheumatic fever

Rocky Mountain spotted fever

Rubella

Rubella (congenital syndrome)

Salmonellosis

Shiga toxin producing E. coli disease

Shigellosis

Staphylococcal disease, (first 28 days post- Partum mother or child)

Streptococcal, invasive Group A (normally sterile Sites)

Syphilis

Tetanus

Toxic Shock syndrome

Trachoma

Trichinosis

Tularemia

Typhoid fever

Typhus

Yersinia enteritis

WITHIN ONE WEEK

HIV infection

Chicken pox (aggregate numbers)

Influenza (aggregate numbers)

Reports can be called in, mailed or faxed to the local health department.

Phone: 810 257-1017
Fax: 810 257-3247

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