NYSDOH Communicable Disease Reporting Requirements
Reporting of communicable diseases is mandated under the New York Sanitary Code (10NYCRR 2.10a). The primary responsibility for reporting rests with the physician, however, laboratories (PHL 2102), school nurses (10NYCRR 2.12), day care center directors, nursing homes/hospitals (10NYCRR 405.3d) and state institutions (10NYCRR 2.10) or other locations providing health services (10NYCRR 2.12) are also required to report the diseases listed below.3
Amebiasis
Animal bites for which rabies prophylaxis is given1
Anthrax 2
Arboviral infection3
Babesiosis
Botulism 2
Brucellosis 2
Campylobacteriosis
Chancroid
Chlamydia trachomatis infection
Cholera
Cryptosporidiosis
Cyclosporiasis
Diphtheria
E. coli 0157:H7 infection 4
Ehrlichiosis
Encephalitis
Foodborne illness
Giardiasis
Glanders 2
Gonococcal infection
Haemophilus influenzae 5 (invasive disease)
Hantavirus disease
Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS)
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A in a food handler
Hepatitis B, C (specify acute or chronic)
Pregnant hepatitis B carrier
Herpes infection, infants aged 60 days or younger
Hospital associated infections (as defined in section 2.2 10NYCRR)
Influenza, Laboratory-confirmed
Legionellosis
Listeriosis
Lyme disease
Lymphogranuloma venereum
Malaria
Measles
Melioidosis 2
Meningitis
-Aseptic or viral
-Haemophilus
-Meningococcal
-Other (specify type)
Meningococcemia
Monkeypox
Mumps
Pertussis
Plague 2
Poliomyelitis
Psittacosis
Q Fever 2
Rabies
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Rubella (including congenital rubella syndrome)
Salmonellosis
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Shigatoxin-producing infection 4
Shigellosis 4
Smallpox 2
Staphylococcus aureus 6 (due to strains showing reduced susceptibility or resistance to vancomycin)
Staphylococcal enterotoxin B poisoning 2
Streptococcal infection (invasive disease) 5
-Group A beta hemolytic strep
-Group B strep
-Streptococcus pneumoniae
Syphilis, specify stage7
Tetanus
Toxic shock syndrome
Transmissable spongiform encephalopathies 8
Trichinosis
Tuberculosis current disease (specify site)
Tularemia 2
Typhoid
Vibriosis 6
Vaccinia disease 9
Viral hemorrhagic fever 2
Yersiniosis
1Local health unit must be notified prior to initiating rabies prophylaxis.
2Diseases that are possible indicators of bioterrorism.
3Including, but not limited to, infections caused by eastern equine encephalitis virus, western equine
encephalitis virus, West Nile virus, St. Louis encephalitis virus, La Crosse virus, Powassan virus, and
Jamestown Canyon virus, dengue and yellow fever..
4Positive shigatoxin test results should be reported as presumptive evidence of disease.
5 Only report cases with positive cultures from blood, CSF, joint peritoneal or pleural fluid. Do not report
cases with positive ultures from skin, saliva, sputum or throat.
6 Proposed addition to list.
7 Any non-treponemat test > 1:16 or any positive primary or secondary stage disease or prenatal or
delivery test result regardless of titer should be reported by phone; all others may be reported by mail.
8 Including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Cases should be reported directly to the New York State
Department of Health Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias Registry at (518) 473-7817 upon
suspicion of disease. In NYC, cases should also be reported to the NYCDOHMH.
9 Persons with vaccinia infection due to contact transmission, and persons with the following
complications from vaccination: eczema vaccinatum, erythrema multiforme major or
Stevens-Johnson syndrome, getal vaccinia, generalized vaccinia, inadvertent inoculation,
ocular vaccinia, post-vaccinial encephalitis or encephalomyelitis, progressive vaccinia,
pyogenic infection of the infection site, and any other serious adverse events.
