Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 105 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH › Title 105 CMR 300.000 - Reportable Diseases, Surveillance, and Isolation and Quarantine Requirements › Section 300.180 - Diseases Reportable Directly to the Department

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
(A)
Reporting of Suspect or
			 Confirmed Active Tuberculosis Disease
. Any health care provider,
			 laboratory, board of health or administrator of a city, state or private
			 institution or hospital who has knowledge of a case of confirmed tuberculosis
			 or clinically suspected tuberculosis, as defined in
			 105 CMR 300.020,
			 shall notify the Department within 24 hours by telephone, in writing, by
			 facsimile or other electronic means, as defined by the Department. When
			 available, full demographic, epidemiologic, clinical and laboratory information
			 on the case, as defined by the Department shall be included in each report.
			 Upon receipt of such notice, the Department shall notify the local board of
			 health in the community where the case resides
via
MAVEN.
(B)
Reporting of
			 Tuberculosis Infection (also known as Latent Tuberculosis
			 Infection)
. Any health care provider, board of health or
			 administrator of a city, state or private institution or hospital who has
			 knowledge of a case of tuberculosis infection as determined by skin test or
			 other test for determining the presence of tuberculosis infection shall notify
			 the Department in a written or electronic format as designated by the
			 Department. A skin test for tuberculosis which meets criteria for indicating
			 tuberculosis infection according to the published guidelines of the U.S.
			 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Department is itself
			 reportable. When available, full demographic, epidemiologic, clinical and
			 laboratory information on the case, as defined by the Department shall be
			 included in each report.
(C) Any
			 health care provider, laboratory, board of health or administrator of a city,
			 state or private institution or hospital who has knowledge of the diseases
			 listed as follows shall notify the Department within 24 hours, by telephone, in
			 writing, by facsimile or other electronic means, as defined by the Department.
			 When available, full demographic, epidemiologic, and clinical and laboratory
			 information on the case, as defined by the Department must be included in each
			 report.
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS);
Chancroid;
Chlamydial infection;
Gonorrhea;
Granuloma inguinale
;
Herpes simplex infection, neonatal (onset within 60 days after
				birth);
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection;
Lymphogranuloma venereum
;
Ophthalmia neonatorum
caused by any
				agent;
Pelvic inflammatory disease of any etiology; and
Syphilis.
(D) The following work-related diseases and
			 injuries are reportable directly to the Department by physicians and other
			 health care providers in a manner approved by the Department no later than ten
			 days after diagnosis or identification. Said report must include, at a minimum,
			 the reporter's name and address; the patient's name, address, telephone number,
			 age and sex, race/ethnicity, if known; the employer's name and location where
			 the occupational exposure or injury reportedly occurred; the diagnosis of the
			 disease or description of the injury; the patient's occupation if known; and
			 any other information as requested by the Department.
(1)
Occupational Lung
			 Disease
.
(a)
			 Asbestosis;
(b)
			 Silicosis;
(c) Beryllium
			 disease;
(d) Chemical
			 pneumonitis;
(e) Asthma caused by
			 or aggravated by workplace exposures; and
(f) Other work-related lung
			 disease.