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-- Reportable Diseases and Conditions --

2500(b) It shall be the duty of every health care provider, knowing or or in attendance on a case or suspected case of any of the diseases or conditions listed below, to report to the local health officer for the jurisdiction where the patient resides. Where no health care provider is in attendance, any individual having the knowledge of a person who is suspected to be suffering from one of the diseases or conditions listed below may make such a report to the local health officer for the jurisdiction where the patient resides.

2500 (c) The administrator of each health facility, clinic or other setting where more than one health care provider may know of a case, a suspected case or an outbreak of disease within the facility shall establish and be responsible for administrative procedures to assure that reports are made to the local health officer.

2500 (a) (14) 'Health care provider' means a physician and surgeon, a veterinarian, a podiatrist, a nurse practitioner, a physician assistant, a registered nurse, a nurse midwife, a school nurse, an infection control practitioner, a medical examiner, a coroner, or a dentist.

= Report IMMEDIATELY by telephone.

  FAX  = Report by telephone, fax, or mail within ONE WORKING DAY of identification.

*All Other Diseases/Conditions Should be Reported by Telephone, Mail or FAX within seven Calendar Days of Identification.

Reportable Communicable Diseases [17 CCR 2500 (j) (l)]: 

(Diseases A-D, E-L, M-R, S-Z)

• Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

• Amebiasis FAX

• Anisakiasis FAX

• Anthrax

• Babesiosis FAX

• Botulism (Infant, Foodborne, Wound)

• Brucellosis

• Campylobacteriosis FAX

• Chancroid

• Chlamydia

• Cholera

• Ciguatera Fish Poisoning

• Coccidioidomycosis

• Colorado Tick Fever FAX

• Conjunctivitis, Acute Infectious of Newborn, Specify Etiology FAX

• Cryptosporidiosis FAX

• Cysticercosis

• Dengue

• Diarrhea of the Newborn, Outbreaks

• Diptheria

• Domoic Acid Poisoning (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning)

• Echinococcosis (Hydatid Disease)

• Ehrlichiosis

• Encephalitis, Specify Etiology: Viral, Bacterial, Fungal, Parasitic FAX

• Escherichia Coli 0157:H7 Infection

• Foodborne Disease FAX
  (Report IMMEDIATELY by telephone when 2 or more cases, or suspected cases, from separate households are suspected to have the same source of illness).

• Giardiasis

• Gonococcal Infections

• Gonorrhea

• Hantavirus Infections

• Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome

• Haemophilus influenzae Invasive Disease FAX

• Hepatitis A FAX

• Hepatitis B (specify acute case or chronic)

• Hepatitis C (specify acute case or chronic)

• Hepatitis D (Delta)

• Hepatitis, other (acute)

• Kawasaki Syndrome (Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome)

• Legionellosis

• Leprosy (Hansen Disease)

• Leptospirosis

• Listeriosis FAX

• Lyme Disease

• Lymphocytic choriomeningitis FAX

• Malaria FAX

• Measles (Rubeola) FAX

• Meningitis, Specify Etiology: Viral, Bacterial, Fungal, Parasitic FAX

• Meningococcal Infections

• Mumps

• Non-Gonococcal Urethritis (excluding laboratory confirmed Chlamydial infections)

• Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning

• Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)

• Pertussis (Whooping Cough) FAX

• Plague, Human or Animal

• Poliomyelitis, Paralytic FAX

• Psittacosis FAX

• Q Fever FAX

• Rabies, Human or Animal

• Relapsing Fever FAX

• Reye Syndrome

• Rheumatic Fever, Acute

• Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

• Rubella (German Measles)

• Rubella Syndrome, Congenital

• Salmonellosis (other than Typhoid Fever) FAX

• Schistosomal Dermatitis (Swimmers Itch) FAX

• Scombroid Fish Poisoning

• Smallpox

• Shigellosis FAX

• Streptococcal Infections FAX
  (Outbreak of any type, and individual cases in food handlers & dairy workers only).

• Syphilis FAX

• Tetanus

• Toxic Shock Syndrome

• Toxoplasmosis

• Trichinosis FAX

• Tuberculosis FAX

• Tularemia

• Typhoid Fever, Cases and Carriers FAX

• Typhus Fever

• Varicella (deaths only)

• Vibrio Infections FAX

• Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (e.g. Ebola, Lassa and Marburg viruses)

• Water-Associated Disease FAX

• Yellow Fever

• Yersiniosis FAX

• OCCURRENCE of ANY UNUSUAL DISEASE

• OUTBREAKS of ANY DISEASE (Including diseases not listed on this list). Specify if institutional and/or open community

• Cancer (except basal and squamous cell skin cancer) *

• Alzheimers Disease and Related Conditions ^

• Disorders Characterized by Lapses of Consciousness ^

* Report to Cancer Surveillance Office at (714) 824-2680 or fax (714) 824-4773.
^ Report to DMV Driver Safety at (619) 627-3901 or fax (619) 627-3925.

Phone, Fax, & Address for Reporting

Fax Number for Reporting:
(831) 454-5049

Phone Number for Reporting:
(831) 454-4114 on weekdays, and (831) 471-1183 on weekdays after 5pm, weekends, and holidays.

Mailing Address for Reporting:

Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency

1060 Emeline Ave

Santa Cruz, CA. 95060

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