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Bureau of Epidemiology

610 South 200 East #218

Salt Lake City, Utah 84111

Phone (801) 534-4600

Fax (801) 534-4557

Reportable Diseases

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UTAH LAW REQUIRES THAT THE FOLLOWING DISEASES BE REPORTED TO THE
SALT LAKE VALLEY HEALTH DEPARTMENT

To report, call the surveillance epidemiologist (801) 534-4607 or send confidential fax to (801) 534-4557

24-hour emergency reporting number:
(801) 580-8597

Report Immediately by Phone:

  • Anthrax
  • Botulism
  • Cholera
  • Diptheria
  • Haemophilus Influenzae (Invasive Disease)
  • Hepatitis A
  • Measles (Rubeola)
  • Meningococcal Disease
  • Plague
  • Poliomyelitis (Paralytic)
  • Rabies (Human and Animal)
  • Rubella
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
  • Smallpox
  • Staphylococcus aureus with Resistance (VRSA) or Intermediate resistance (VISA) to Vancomycin isolated from any site
  • Syphilis (primary or secondary stage)
  • Tuberculosis
  • Tularemia
  • Typhoid (cases and carriers)
  • Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  • Yellow Fever
  • Any unusual occurrence of infectious or communicable disease or any unusual or increased occurrence of any illness that may indicate a Bioterrorism event or public health hazard, including any single case or multiple cases of a newly recognized emergent or re-emergent disease or disease-producing agent, including newly identified bacteria or a novel influenza strain such as a pandemic influenza strain.

REPORT WITHIN 3 WORKING DAYS

  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
  • Adverse event resulting after smallpox vaccination
  • Amebiasis
  • Arbovirus infection, including St. Louis encephalitis and West Nile virus infection
  • Brucellosis
  • Campylobacteriosis
  • Chancroid
  • Chickenpox
  • Chlamydia trachomatis infection
  • Coccidioidmycosis
  • Colorado tick fever
  • Creutzfelt-Jakob disease and other transmissible human sponfigorm encephalopathies
  • Cryptosporidiosis
  • Cyclospora infections
  • Dengue fever
  • Echinococcosis
  • Ehrlichiosis (human granulocytic, human monocytic, or unspecified)
  • Encephalitis
  • Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infection
  • Giardiasis
  • Gonorrhea (sexually transmitted and ophthalmia neonatorum)
  • Hansen disease (leprosy)
  • Hantavirus infection and pulmonary syndrome
  • Hepatitis B (cases and carriers)
  • Hepatitis C (acute and chronic infection)
  • Hepatitis (other viral)
  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV infection)
  • Influenza-associated hospitalization
  • Influenza-associated death in a person less than 18 years of age
  • Legionellosis
  • Listeriosis
  • Lyme disease
  • Malaria
  • Meningitis
  • Mumps
  • Norovirus (formerly called Norwalk-Like Virus) infection)
  • Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)
  • Pertussis
  • Poliovirus infection (nonparalytic)
  • Psittacosis
  • Q Fever
  • Relapsing fever (tick-borne or louse-borne)
  • Rocky Mountain spotted fever
  • Rubella (congenital syndrome)
  • Salmonellosis
  • Shigellosis
  • Streptococcal disease (Invasive or isolated from a normally sterile site)
  • Tetanus
  • Toxic-Shock Syndrome (staphylococcal or streptococcal)
  • Trichinosis
  • Vibriosis

ALSO REPORTABLE: UNUSUAL DISEASES OR OUTBREAKS OF ANY KIND AND ELEVATED BLOOD LEAD LEVELS GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO 10 MICROGRAMS