Report a disease of public health significance
Under the Health Protection and Promotion Act, all health-care providers, directors of laboratories, and administrators of hospitals and schools are legally obligated to report a suspect or confirmed case of a disease of public health significance (reportable communicable disease) to their local Medical Officer of Health.
Immediate reporting
If indicated report immediately by telephone:
- Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. call 613-549-1232
- After hours, weekends, and statutory holidays call 613-507-3100
Other diseases are reportable by the next business day with the disease of public health significance notification form, by report to OCEAN, or by fax to (613-549-0349).
Ocean eReferral
Primary care partners can now report diseases to Southeast Public Health directly from an electronic medical record (EMR), through Ocean eReferral.
View our listing on the Ocean Healthmap, or visit eReferral Ontario East for more information and onboarding support.
Sexually transmitted and bloodborne infections (STBBI) reporting
Report STBBI to OCEAN or by fax (613-549-6215). During business hours call 613-549-1232, extension 1275 with questions.
Diseases of public health significance (in alphabetical order)
A
- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
- Acute flaccid paralysis
- Amebiasis
- Anaplasmosis
- Anthrax – Report immediately
B
- Babesiosis
- Blastomycosis
- Botulism – Report immediately
- Brucellosis – Report immediately
C
- Campylobacter enteritis
- Candida auris, infection
- Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) infection or colonization
- Chancroid – See STBBI reporting above
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chlamydia trachomatis
- Cholera – Report immediately
- Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) outbreaks in public hospitals – Report immediately
- Coronavirus, novel including:
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) – Report immediately
- Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) – Report immediately
- COVID-19
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, all types – Report immediately
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Cyclosporiasis
D
- Diphtheria – Report immediately
E
G
- Gastroenteritis outbreaks in institutions and public hospitals – Report immediately
- Giardiasis
- Gonorrhea
- Group A streptococcal disease, invasive – Report immediately
- Group B streptococcal disease, neonatal
H
- Haemophilus influenzae disease, all types, invasive – Report immediately
- Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome – Report immediately
- Hemorrhagic fevers including: Ebola virus disease, Marburg virus disease, and other viral causes – Report immediately
- Hepatitis A, viral – Report immediately
- Hepatitis B, viral – See STBBI reporting above
- Hepatitis C, viral
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
I
- Influenza including:
- Novel strains – Report immediately
M
- Measles – Report immediately
- Meningitis, acute, including:
- Meningococcal disease, invasive – Report immediately
- Mpox – Report immediately and report using the Ontario Mpox Reporting Tool for Clinicians.
- Mumps
P
- Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP)
- Paratyphoid fever
- Pertussis (whooping cough)
- Plague – Report immediately
- Pneumococcal disease, invasive
- Poliomyelitis, acute – Report immediately
- Powassan Virus
- Psittacosis/Ornithosis
Q
- Q Fever – Report immediately
R
- Rabies – Report immediately
- Rabies reporting form A – Animal bite or suspected rabies exposure reporting
- Rabies reporting form B – Post Exposure Prophylaxis Administration Reporting
- Respiratory infection outbreaks in institutions and public hospitals – Report immediately
- Rubella – Report immediately
- Rubella, congenital syndrome – Report immediately
S
- Salmonellosis
- Shigellosis – Report immediately
- Smallpox and other orthopox viruses – Report immediately
- Syphilis and Congenital Syphilis
T
- Tetanus
- Trichinosis
- Tuberculosis, active disease – Report immediately
- Tuberculosis latent infection
- Positive Tuberculin Skin Test (TST) and Interferon-Gamma Release Assay (IGRA) reporting form Hastings and Prince Edward Counties
- Positive Tuberculin Skin Test (TST) and Interferon-Gamma Release Assay (IGRA) reporting form Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington
- Positive Tuberculin Skin Test (TST) and Interferon-Gamma Release Assay (IGRA) reporting form Leeds, Grenville and Lanark Counties
- Tularemia
- Typhoid fever – Report immediately
V
- Verotoxin-producing E. coli infection, including haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) – Report immediately