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Under the Health Protection and Promotion Act, all healthcare practitioners, 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.

Diseases that must be reported immediately

Report these diseases immediately by phone to KFL&A Public Health's medical officer of health. During business hours call 613-549-1232 or after hours (or on holidays) call 613-507-3100:

  • Anthrax
  • Botulism
  • Brucellosis
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, all types
  • Cryptosporidiosis
  • Cyclosporiasis
  • Diphtheria
  • Group A streptococcal disease, invasive
  • Haemophilus influenzae disease, all types, invasive
  • Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
  • Hemorrhagic fevers, including: Ebola virus disease, Marburg virus disease, and other viral causes
  • Hepatitis A, viral
  • Measles
  • Meningococcal disease, invasive
  • Mpox - Ontario Mpox Reporting Tool for Clinicians
  • Plague
  • Poliomyelitis, acute
  • Q Fever
  • Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
  • Smallpox

Other diseases of public health significance to report

Report these diseases on the next business day, using the reportable disease notification form, unless a disease specific reporting form is indicated (i.e., AIDS, Chlamydia, gonorrhea, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, Lyme disease, mpox, rabies, syphilis, and tuberculosis) or fax (613-549-0349): 

  • Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) – HIV/AIDS reporting form
  • Acute flaccid paralysis
  • Amebiasis
  • Blastomycosis
  • Campylobacter enteritis
  • Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) infection or colonization
  • Chancroid
  • Chickenpox (varicella)
  • Chlamydia trachomatis infections – Chlamydia reporting form
  • Cholera
  • Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) outbreaks in public hospitals
  • COVID-19 and other diseases caused by a novel coronavirus, including severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)
  • Echinococcus multilocularis infection
  • Encephalitis, primary, viral
  • Encephalitis, post-infectious, vaccine-related, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, unspecified
  • Food poisoning, all causes
  • Gastroenteritis outbreaks in institutions and public hospitals
  • Gonorrhoea – Gonorrhoea reporting form
  • Group B streptococcal disease, neonatal
  • Hepatitis B, viral – Hepatitis B reporting form
  • Hepatitis C, viral – Hepatitis C reporting form
  • Influenza
  • Legionellosis
  • Leprosy
  • Listeriosis
  • Lyme disease – Clinical Lyme disease reporting form
  • Meningitis, acute, including: bacterial, viral and other
  • Mumps
  • Ophthalmia neonatorum
  • Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP)
  • Paratyphoid fever
  • Pertussis (whooping cough)
  • Pneumococcal disease, invasive
  • Psittacosis/Ornithosis
  • Rabies – Rabies reporting form A (Animal Bite or Suspected Rabies Exposure Reporting). 
  • Rabies – Rabies reporting form B (Rabies Post Exposure Prophylaxis Administration Report) 
  • Rubella
  • Rubella, congenital syndrome
  • Salmonellosis
  • Shigellosis
  • Syphilis – Syphilis reporting form, Congenital syphilis reporting form
  • Tetanus
  • Trichinosis
  • Tuberculosis – Tuberculosis reporting form
  • Tularemia
  • Typhoid fever
  • Verotoxin-producing E. coli infection, including haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)
  • West Nile virus illness
  • Yersiniosis

Infectious Diseases Protocol, 2022 – Ontario Ministry of Health

Canadian Tuberculosis Standards – 8th Edition: 2022 – Canadian Journal of Respiratory, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine

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