
How and What to Report
For all Reportables call 815-720-4050
or Fax 815-962-5161
After Hours 815-720-4000
ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTABLE DISEASES
March 2008
Mandated reporters, such as health care providers, hospitals and laboratories, must report any suspected or confirmed case of these diseases to the local health authority within the number of days or hours indicated in parentheses.
Any suspected bioterrorist threat (immediately)
Any unusual case or cluster of cases that may indicate a public health hazard (immediately)
AIDS (7d)
Anthrax (immediately)
Arboviruses (including WNV) (7 d)
Botulism, foodborne (immediately)
Botulism, infant, wound, other (24h)
Brucellosis (7d, unless bioterrorism suspected, then immediately)
Chancroid (7d)
Chickenpox (24h)
Chlamydia (7d)
Cholera (24h)
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (7d)
Cryptosporidiosis (7d)
Cyclosporiasis (7d)
Diphtheria (24h)
Ehrlichiosis and Anaplasmosis (7d)
Enteric E. coli infections (STEC, O157:H7,
ETEC, EPEC,EIEC) (24h)
Foodborne or waterborne illness (24h)
Giardiasis (7d)
Gonorrhea (7d)
Haemophilus influenzae, invasive (24h)
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (24h)
Hemolytic uremic syndrome, post diarrheal (24h)
Hepatitis A (24h), B (7d), C (7d), D (7d)
Histoplasmosis (7d)
HIV infection (7d)
Influenza, deaths in <18 yr olds (7d)
Influenza A, novel virus (immediately)
Legionellosis (7d)
Leprosy (7d)
Leptospirosis (7d)
Listeriosis (7d)
Lyme disease (7d)
Malaria (7d)
Measles (24h)
Mumps (24h)
N. meningitidis, invasive (24h)
Ophthalmia neonatorum (gonococcal) (7d)
Pertussis or whooping cough (24h)
Plague (immediately)
Poliomyelitis (24h)
Psittacosis (7d)
Q fever (7d unless bioterrorism suspected
then immediately)
Rabies, human and potential human exposure (24h)
Reye syndrome (7d)
Rocky Mountain spotted fever (7d)
Rubella (24h)
Salmonellosis, other than typhoid (7d)
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
(SARS) (immediately)
Shigellosis (7d)
Smallpox (immediately)
Smallpox vaccination, complications of (24h)
S. aureus, Methicillin resistant (MRSA) clusters in a community setting or colonization/infection in infants <61 days (24h)
S. aureus infections with intermediate or high level resistance to vancomycin (24h)
Streptococcal infections, Group A, invasive and sequelae to Group A streptococcal infections (24h)
S. pneumoniae, invasive in those <5 yrs (7d)
Syphilis (7d)
Tetanus (7d)
Toxic shock syndrome due to S. aureus (7d)
Trichinosis (7d)
Tuberculosis (7d)
Tularemia (7d unless bioterrorism suspected - then immediately)
Typhoid fever (24h)
Typhus (24h)
Vibriosis (non cholera) (7d)
Yersiniosis (7d)



