Title 17, California Code of Regulations (CCR), Section 2500 Reportable Diseases and Conditions
2500. REPORTING TO THE LOCAL HEALTH AUTHORITY
2500 (b) It shall be the duty of every health care provider, knowing 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.
Urgency Reporting Requirements [17 CCR 2500 (h) (i)]
= Report IMMEDIATELY by telephone to your local health department.
FAX = Report within 1 WORK DAY by FAX (213) 749-0926
= Telephone (213) 744-6160
= Mail to Los Angeles County TB Control Program, 2615 S. Grand Ave. Room 507, Los Angeles, CA 90007.
Reportable Communicable Diseases [17 CCR 2500 (j) (l)]:
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
(HIV infection only: see "Human Immunodeficiency Virus") | |
| 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
(Report IMMEDIATELY by telephone when 2 or more cases, or suspected cases, from separate households are suspected to have the same source of illness). | FAX |
| 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) | |
| Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)(2641-2643): reporting is NON-NAME | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Shigellosis | FAX |
| Smallpox | |
Streptococcal Infections
(Outbreak of any type, and individual cases in food handlers & dairy workers only). | FAX |
| Syphilis | FAX |
| Tetanus | |
| Toxic Shock Syndrome | |
| Toxoplasmosis | |
| Trichinosis | FAX |
| Tuberculosis | FAX |
| Tularemia | |
| Typhoid Fever, Cases and Carriers | FAX |
| Typhus Fever | |
| Varicella Infections (Death Only) | |
| Vibrio Infections | FAX |
| Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (e.g. Ebola, Lassa and Marburg viruses) | |
| Water-Associated Disease | FAX |
| Yellow Fever | |
| Yersiniosis | FAX |
