Report a communicable disease

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