California Code of Regulations › Title 17 - Public Health › Division 1 - State Department of Health Services › Chapter 4 - Preventive Medical Service › Subchapter 1 - Reportable Diseases and Conditions › Article 1 - Reporting › Section 2502 - Reports by Local Health Officer to State Department of Public Health

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Summary Reports:
					 Each local health officer shall report at least weekly, on the Weekly Morbidity by
					 Place of Report form to the Director the number of cases of those diseases,
					 conditions, unusual diseases or outbreaks of disease reported pursuant to Section
					 2500. Copies of the form are available
					 from the Department's Division of Communicable Disease Control.
(b) Individual Case and Outbreak Reports: For the
					 diseases listed below, the local health officer shall prepare and send to the
					 Department along with the summary report described in (a) above an individual case
					 or outbreak report for each individual case/outbreak of those diseases which the
					 Department has identified as requiring epidemiological analysis reported pursuant to
					 Section 2500. At the discretion of the
					 Director, the required individual case/outbreak report may be either a Confidential
					 Morbidity Report, its electronic equivalent or a hard copy 8.5x11 inch individual
					 case/outbreak report form. The Weekly Morbidity by Place of Report form indicates
					 which format to use. Each individual case report shall include the following:
(1) verification of information reported pursuant
					 to Section 2500;
(2) information on the probable source of
					 infection, if known;
(3) laboratory or
					 radiologic findings, if any;
(4) clinical
					 signs and/or symptoms, if applicable; and
(5) any known epidemiological risk factors. The
					 Department or CDC has prepared forms that may be used for many of the diseases
					 requiring individual case reports. Copies of these case report forms are available
					 from the Department's Division of Communicable Disease Control. An individual case
					 report is required for the following diseases:
* Anthrax, human
* Botulism (Infant, Foodborne, Wound, Other)
* Brucellosis, human
* Chickenpox (Varicella) deaths (separate reporting form
						required)
* Chickenpox (Varicella) hospitalizations (separate reporting
						form required)
* Chikungunya virus infection
* Cholera
* Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and other Transmissible
						Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE)
* Cyclosporiasis
* Cysticercosis
* Dengue virus infection
* Diphtheria
*
Escherichia coli
: Shiga toxin producing
						(STEC) including
E. coli
O157
* Flavivirus infection of undetermined species
* Foodborne Disease Outbreak
*
Haemophilus influenzae
, Invasive
						Disease
* Hantavirus Infections
* Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
* Hepatitis A, acute infection
* Hepatitis B, acute only
* Hepatitis C, acute only
* Hepatitis D (Delta), acute infection
* Hepatitis E, acute infection
* Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection, stage 3
						(AIDS)
* Influenza, deaths in laboratory-confirmed cases for ages
						0-64 years
* Influenza, novel strains (human)
* Legionellosis
* Leprosy (Hansen Disease)
* Leptospirosis
* Listeriosis
* Lyme Disease
* Malaria
* Measles (Rubeola)
* Meningococcal Infections
* Monkeypox or orthopox virus infection
* Outbreak of Disease Report
* Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
* Plague, human
* Poliovirus Infection
* Psittacosis
* Q Fever
* Rabies, human or animal (separate reporting forms required
						for human and animal cases)
* Relapsing Fever
* Rickettsial Diseases (non-Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever),
						including Typhus and Typhus-like Illnesses)
* Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
* Rubella (German Measles) (a separate form is used for
						Congenital Rubella)
* Shiga toxin (detected in feces)
* Smallpox
* Streptococcal Outbreaks and Individual Cases in Food
						Handlers and Dairy Workers Only
* Syphilis
* Tetanus
* Trichinosis
* Tuberculosis
* Tularemia, human
* Typhoid Fever, Cases and Carriers (separate reporting forms
						required for cases and carriers)
* Unusual Disease Report
*
Vibrio
Infections
* Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, human (e.g., Crimean-Congo, Ebola,
						Lassa and Marburg viruses)
* Waterborne Disease Outbreak
* West Nile virus infection
* Yellow Fever
* Zika virus infection