While the school district is not responsible for reporting, the following infectious diseases are required to be reported to the state and local public health offices:
Acquired Immune | Leprosy | Rubella (German |
Deficiency Syndrome | Leptospirosis | measles) |
(AIDS) | Lyme disease | Rubeola (measles) |
Amebiasis | Malaria | Salmonellosis |
Anthrax | Meningitis | Shigellosis |
Botulism | (bacterial or viral) | Tetanus |
Brucellosis | Mumps | Toxic Shock Syndrome |
Campylobacteriosis | Parvovirus B 19 | Trichinosis |
Chlamydia trachomatis | infection (fifth | Tuberculosis |
Cholera | disease and other | Tularemia |
Diphtheria | complications) | Typhoid fever |
E. Coli 0157:h7 | Pertussis | Typhus fever |
Encephalitis | (whooping cough) | Venereal disease |
Giardiasis | Plague | Chancroid |
Hepatitis, viral | Poliomyelitis | Gonorrhea |
(A,B, Non A- | Psittacosis | Granuloma Inguinale |
Non-B, Unspecified) | Rabies | Lymphogranuloma |
Histoplasmosis | Reye's Syndrome | Venereum |
Human Immunodeficiency | Rheumatic fever | Syphilis |
Virus (HIV) infection | Rocky Mountain | Yellow fever |
other than AIDS | spotted fever | |
Influenza | Rubella (congenital | |
Legionellosis | syndrome) |
Any other disease which is unusual in incidence, occurs in unusual numbers of circumstances, or appears to be of public health concern, e.g., epidemic diarrhea, food or waterborne outbreaks, acute respiratory illness.
NOTE: Be sure to mail the appropriate copies to both the state and local public health offices. School districts must submit a report weekly if there are cases of mumps, chicken pox, erythema infectiosum, gastroenteritis, influenza-like illnesses and if the number is greater than 10 percent of the school district's enrollment.