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Diseases to report

The health-care system identifies most cases of reportable disease. A provider who knows or suspects that a child or worker suffers from a reportable disease should contact their Licensing Officer, Public Health Nurse or Environmental Health Officer.

Remember that information about someone’s health is private information and should be treated with confidentiality.

Schools, care centres and community

  • Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
  • Anthrax 
  • Botulism 
  • Brucellosis 
  • Carbapenemase Producing Organism (CPO)
  • Chancroid
  • Cholera
  • Congenital infections:
    • Toxoplasmosis
    • Rubella
    • Cytomegalovirus
    • Herpes simplex
    • Varicella-zoster
    • Hepatitis B Virus
    • Congenital Rubella Syndrome
    • Listeriosis and any other congenital infection
  • Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease 
  • Cryptococcus gatti
  • Cryptosporidiosis 
  • Cyclospora Infection
  • Diffuse Lamellar Keratitis (DLK)
  • Diphtheria: Cases, Carriers
  • Encephalitis: Post-infectious, Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, Vaccine-related, Viral
  • Foodborne illness: All causes
  • Gastroenteritis epidemic: Bacterial, Parasitic, Viral
  • Genital Chlamydia Infection
  • Giardiasis
  • Gonorrhea – all sites
  • Group A Streptococcal Disease, Invasive
  • H5 and H7 strains of the Influenza virus 
  • Haemophilus influenzae Disease - All Invasive, by Type
  • Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome 
  • Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome 
  • Hemorrhagic Viral Fevers 
  • Hepatitis Viral: Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis E, Other Viral Hepatitis
  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus
  • Leprosy
  • Lyme Disease
  • Measles
  • Meningitis - All causes: Bacterial (Haemophilus, Pneumococcal, Other), Viral
  • Meningococcal Disease: All Invasive including Primary Meningococcal Pneumonia & Primary Meningococcal Conjunctivitis
  • Mumps
  • Neonatal Group B Streptococcus Infection
  • Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) 
  • Pertussis (Whooping Cough) 
  • Plague
  • Poliomyelitis
  • Rabies 
  • Reye's Syndrome
  • Rubella
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
  • Smallpox
  • Streptococcus pneumoniae Infection, Invasive
  • Syphilis
  • Tetanus
  • Transfusion Transmitted Infection
  • Tuberculosis
  • Tularemia
  • Typhoid Fever and Paratyphoid Fever
  • Venereal Disease: Chancroid, Gonorrhea — all sites, Syphilis
  • Waterborne Illness: All causes
  • West Nile Virus Infection
  • Yellow Fever

Schedule B: reportable by laboratories only

  • All specific bacterial (see below) and viral stool pathogens:

    • Campylobacter
    • Salmonella
    • Shigella
    • Yersinia
  • Amoebiasis
  • Borrelia burgdorferi infection
  • Cerebrospinal Fluid Micro-organisms
  • Chlamydial Diseases, including Psittacosis
  • Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease
  • Cryptococcal Infection
  • Herpes Genitalis
  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
  • Influenza virus, including the H5 and H7 strains
  • Legionellosis
  • Leptospirosis
  • Listeriosis
  • Malaria
  • Q Fever
  • Rickettsial Diseases
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
  • Smallpox
  • Tularemia
  • West Nile Virus Infection
  • Legionellosis
  • Leptospirosis
  • Listeriosis
  • Malaria
  • Q Fever
  • Rickettsial Diseases
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
  • Smallpox
  • Tularemia
  • West Nile Virus Infection

Notifying Public Health of an outbreak of diarrheal disease

Some diseases that are not “reportable diseases” can still cause serious illness and need to be followed up by public health to determine the cause and to prevent spread. Many of these diseases cause diarrhea and vomiting. 

Providers in child care centres should notify public health, when 3 or more children have been sick with similar symptoms, such as diarrhea or vomiting, within a short period of time.

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