Reportable Infectious Diseases

The following diseases are reportable to the City of Hamilton’s Medical Officer of Health under Ontario Regulations 558/91 and amendments under the Health Protection and Promotion Act.

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Diseases that are reportable immediately

The following diseases should be reported immediately to the Medical Officer of Health by calling 905-546-2063.

  • Anthrax
  • Botulism
  • Brucellosis
  • Cholera
  • Clostridium difficile associated disease (CDAD), public hospital outbreaks
  • Diphtheria
  • Encephalitis (primary, viral)
  • Food poisoning, all causes
  • Gastroenteritis, institutional outbreaks
  • Group A Streptococcal disease, invasive
  • Haemophilus influenzae b disease, invasive
  • Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
  • Hemorrhagic fevers including:
    • Ebola virus disease
    • Marburg virus disease
    • Other viral causes
  • Hepatitis A
  • Influenza, in institutions
  • Lassa fever
  • Legionellosis
  • Listeriosis
  • Measles
  • Meningitis, acute, bacterial
  • Meningococcal disease, invasive
  • Mumps
  • Paratyphoid fever
  • Plague
  • Poliomyelitis, acute
  • Q fever
  • Rabies
  • Respiratory outbreak infections in institutions
  • Rubella
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome or SARS
  • Shigellosis
  • Smallpox
  • Tularemia
  • Typhoid fever
  • Verotoxin, producing E. coli infection and indicator conditions including Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome or HUS
  • Yellow fever

Diseases that are reportable by the next working day

The following diseases are reportable by the next working day by faxing 905-546-4078.

  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or AIDS
  • Acute Flaccid Paralysis, or AFP
  • Amebiasis
  • Campylobacter enteritis
  • Chancroid
  • Chickenpox (varicella)
  • Chlamydia trachomatis infections
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
  • Cryptosporidiosis
  • Cyclosporiasis
  • Encephalitis including:
    • post-infectious
    • vaccine-related
    • subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
    • unspecified
  • Giardiasis, except asymptomatic cases
  • Gonorrhoea
  • Group B Streptococcal disease, neonatal
  • Hepatitis B
  • Hepatitis C
  • Influenza
  • Leprosy
  • Lyme disease
  • Malaria
  • Meningitis including:
    • viral
    • other
  • Ophthalmia neonatorum
  • Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning, or PSP
  • Pertussis (whooping cough)
  • Pneumococal disease, invasive
  • Psittacosis, Ornithosis
  • Rubella, congenital syndrome
  • Salmonellosis
  • Syphilis
  • Tetanus
  • Trichinosis
  • Tuberculosis
  • West Nile Virus illness
  • Yersiniosis

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