Report a disease of public health significance

Under the Health Protection and Promotion Act, all health care providers, directors of laboratories, and administrators of hospitals and schools are legally obligated to report a suspect or confirmed case of a disease of public health significance (reportable communicable disease) to their local Medical Officer of Health.

Immediate reporting

If indicated report immediately by telephone:

Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. call 613-549-1232
After hours, weekends, and statutory holidays call 613-507-3100

Other diseases are reportable by the next business day with the disease of public health significance notification form, by report to OCEAN , or by fax to (613-549-0349).

Ocean eReferral

Primary care partners can now report diseases to KFL&A Public Health directly from an electronic medical record (EMR), through Ocean eReferral.

View our listing on the Ocean Healthmap, or visit eReferral Ontario East for more information and onboarding support.

Sexually transmitted and bloodborne infections (STBBI) reporting

Report STBBI to OCEAN or by fax (613-549-6215). During business hours call 613-549-1232, ext. 1275 with questions.

Diseases of public health significance (in alphabetical order)

A

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Acute flaccid paralysis
Amebiasis
Anaplasmosis
Anthrax - Report immediately

B

Botulism - Report immediately
Brucellosis - Report immediately

C

Campylobacter enteritis
Candida auris, infection
Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) infection or colonization
Chancroid
Chickenpox (varicella)
Chlamydia trachomatis
Cholera - Report immediately
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) outbreaks in public hospitals - Report immediately
Coronavirus, novel including:
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) - Report immediately
- Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) - Report immediately
- COVID-19
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, all types - Report immediately
Cryptosporidiosis
Cyclosporiasis

D

Diphtheria - Report immediately

E

F

Food poisoning, all causes

G

Gastroenteritis outbreaks in institutions and public hospitals - Report immediately
Giardiasis
Gonorrhea
Group A streptococcal disease, invasive - Report immediately
Group B streptococcal disease, neonatal

H

Haemophilus influenzae disease, all types, invasive - Report immediately
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome - Report immediately
Hemorrhagic fevers including: Ebola virus disease, Marburg virus disease, and other viral causes - Report immediately
Hepatitis A, viral - Report immediately
Hepatitis B, viral
Hepatitis C, viral
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

I

Influenza including:
- Novel strains - Report immediately

L

M

Measles - Report immediately
Meningitis, acute, including:
- Bacterial - Report immediately
- Viral
- Other
Meningococcal disease, invasive - Report immediately
Mpox - Report immediately and report using the Ontario Mpox Reporting Tool for Clinicians.
Mumps

O

Opthalmia neonatorum

P

Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP)
Paratyphoid fever
Pertussis (whooping cough)
Plague - Report immediately
Pneumococcal disease, invasive
Poliomyelitis, acute - Report immediately
Powassan Virus
Psittacosis/Ornithosis

Q

Q Fever - Report immediately

R

Rabies - Report immediately
- Rabies, animal bite or suspected rabies exposure reporting (Rabies reporting form A)
- Rabies Post Exposure Prophylaxis Administration Reporting (Rabies reporting form B)

Respiratory infection outbreaks in institutions and public hospitals - Report immediately
Rubella - Report immediately
Rubella, congenital syndrome - Report immediately

S

Salmonellosis
Shigellosis - Report immediately
Smallpox and other orthorpox viruses - Report immediately
Syphilis and Congenital Syphilis

T

Tetanus
Trichinosis
Tuberculosis, active disease - Report immediately
Tuberculosis latent infection
Tularemia
Typhoid fever - Report immediately

V

Verotoxin-producing E. coli infection, including haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) - Report immediately

W

West Nile virus illness

Y

Yersiniosis