PHYSICIAN – DISEASE REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
LABORATORY – DISEASE REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
All Michigan physicians and health care providers are required to report patients with the following conditions to the patient’s local health department. To assist health care providers in meeting their obligations to report, the Michigan Department of Community Health has prepared the list presented below. Lab-confirmed and clinical diagnosis are reportable in the time intervals listed. Reporting allows for appropriate public health follow-up for your patients and assists us in identifying outbreaks not always evident to a sole provider.
Any unusual occurrence, outbreak, or epidemic of any disease, condition, and/or nosocomial infection.
| AIDS | Granuloma inguinale | Pertussis |
| Anthrax | H. influenzae (meningitis or epiglottitis) | Plague |
| Botulism | Hepatitis B in a pregnant woman | Poliomyelitis |
| Chancroid | Lymphogranuloma venereum | Rabies (human) |
| Cholera | Measles | Syphilis |
| Diphtheria | Meningococcal disease (meningitis or Viral hemorrhagic fevers Meningococcemia) | Tuberculosis |
| Gonorrhea | Yellow fever |
| Amebiasis | Hepatitis | Rubella (congenital syndrome) |
| Blastomycosis | Histoplasmosis | Rubella |
| Brucellosis | Kawasaki disease | Salmonellosis |
| Campylobacter enteritis | Legionellosis |
Shigellosis |
| Chlamydia (genital) | Leprosy | Staphylococcal disease (first 28 days postpartum mother or child) |
| Coccidioidomycosis | Leptospirosis | Streptococcal, invasive Group A (normally sterile sites) |
| Cryptosporidiosis | Listeriosis | Tetanus |
| Cyclosporiasis | Lyme disease | Toxic shock syndrome |
| Dengue fever | Malaria | Trachoma |
| E. coli (only shiga toxin producers) | Meningitis (bacterial & viral) | Trichinosis |
| Ehrlichiosis | Mumps | Tularemia |
| Encephalitis, viral | Psittacosis | Typhoid fever |
| Giardiasis | Q fever | Typhus |
| Guillian-Barre syndrome | Reye’s syndrome | Yersinia enteritis |
| Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome | Rheumatic fever | |
| Hemolytic-uremic syndrome | Rocky Mountain spotted fever |
| HIV Infection | Chicken pox (aggregate numbers) | Influenza (aggregate numbers) |
All Michigan laboratories are required to report patients with the following conditions to the patient’s local health department. To assist health providers in meeting their obligations to report, the Michigan Department of Community Health has prepared the list presented below. Reporting allows for appropriate public health follow-up for your patients and assists us in identifying outbreaks not always evident to a sole provider.
| Bacillus anthracis | Hemorrhagic fever viruses | Rabies virus |
| Bordetella pertussis | Hepatitis B surface antigen | Treponema pallidum |
| Calymmatobacterium Granulomatis | Measles (Rubeola) virus | Vibrio cholerae, serovar 01 |
| Clostridium botulinum | Mycobacterium tuberculosis | Yellow fever virus |
| Corynebacterium diphtheriae | Neisseria gonorrhoeae | Yersinis pestis |
| Haemophilus ducreyi | Neisseria meningitidis (sterile sites) |
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| Haemophilus influenzae type B | ||
| (sterile sites) | Poliovirus |
| Arboviruses | Francisella tularensis | Plasmodium species |
| Borrelia burgdorferi | Giardia lamblia | Rubella virus |
| Brucella species | Hantavirus | Salmonella species |
| Campylobacter jejuni | Hepatitis A (anti-HAV IgM) | Shiga toxin producing E. coli disease |
| Chlamydia species | Influenza virus | Shigella species |
| Cryptosporidium species | Legionella species | Trichinella spiralis |
| Cyclospora species | Listeria monocytogenes | Yersinis enterocolitica |
| Entamoeba histolytica | Mumps virus |
CALL YOUR REPORT (269) 945-9516, EXT 127
FAX YOUR REPORT TO (269) 945-4304
YOU MAY ALSO MAIL YOUR REPORT TO:
BARRY EATON DISTRICT HEALTH DEPARTMENT
ATTN: COMMUNICABLE DISEASE REPORTING
110 WEST CENTER STREET
HASTINGS, MICHIGAN 49058
