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TELEPHONE (915) 771-5810 FAX (915) 771-5801
REPORT IMMEDIATELY BY TELEPHONE - Available 24 hrs/7 days a week .
REPORT BY NAME, AGE, DOB, SEX, RACE/ETHNICITY, ADDRESS, TELEPHONE NUMBER, DISEASE, DATE OF ONSET, METHOD OF DIAGNOSIS, NAME ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER OF PHYSICIAN

ANTHRAX
BOTULISM (foodborne)
DIPHTHERIA
HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE (Type b infections, invasive)
MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTION (Invasive)
MARBURG/EBOLA VIRUS
MEASLES (RUBEOLA)
PERTUSSIS
PLAGUE
POLIOMYELITIS, Acute Paralytic
RABIES, HUMAN
SMALLPOX
SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)
VIRAL HEMORRHAGIC FEVER
YELLOW FEVER

As well as these other biological agents:

STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN B
RICIN TOXIN
T-2 MYCOTOXINS

REPORTABLE WITHIN ONE WORKING DAY

BRUCELLOSIS
Q FEVER
TUBERCULOSIS
HEPATITIS A (acute)
RUBELLA (including congenital)
TULAREMIA
VIBRIO INFECTION (including cholera)

REPORTABLE WITHIN SEVENTY-TWO HOURS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Amebiasis
Asbestosis
Botulism (infant)
Campylobacteriosis
Chancroid
Chlamydia trachomatis infection
Creutzfeld-Jacob disease (CJD)
Cryptosporidiosis
Cyclosporiasis
Dengue
Drowning/near drowning
Ehrlichiosis
Encephalitis, arboviral
Escherichia coli, enterohemorrhagic
Flu-like symptoms
Giardiasis
Gonorrhea
H. Pylori
Hansen's disease (Leprosy)
Hantavirus
Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS)
Hepatitis B, D, E & unspecified (acute)
Hepatitis B (chronic) identified prenatally or at delivery
Hepatitis C (newly diagnosed infection)
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV infection)
Influenza
Lead, adult elevated blood
Lead, childhood elevated blood
Legionellosis
Listeriosis
Lyme disease
Malaria
Meningitis (specify type)
Mumps
Pesticide poisoning (acute occupational)
Relapsing fever
Salmonellosis (including typhoid fever)
Scarlet fever
Shigellosis
Silicosis
Spotted fever group - Rickettsioses
Streptococcal disease
Syphilis
Tetanus
Trichinosis
Typhus
Varicella
Yersiniosis

Notifiable Conditions Texas Laws
Several Texas laws (Health & Safety Code, Chapters 81, 84, and 87) require specific information regarding notifiable conditions to be provided to the local and state Health Departments (EPCCHED & TDH). Health care providers, hospitals, laboratories, schools, and others are required to report patients who are suspected of having a notifiable condition. Chapter 97, Title 25, Texas Adm. Code.

General Instructions

Tuberculosis may be reported on Form TB-400, “Report of Case and Patient Services”. Telephone reports may be directed to (915) 543-3560
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) should only be reported once following the initial physician diagnosis. The report date, type, and results of tests including a CD4 + T lymphocyte cell count below 200 cells per micro liter/percentage <14% must be included with the report. Questions on reporting procedures may be directed to (915) 543-3602>
Chancroid, chlamydia trachomatis infection, gonorrhea, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, and syphilis reports must also include the report date, type and results of tests, including a CD4 + T lymphocyte cell count below 200 cells per percentage/percentage < 14% for >
HIV infection. Questions/reports may be directed to (915) 543-3561
Meningitis types include aseptic/viral, bacterial (specify etiology), fungal, parasitic, and other
Encephalitis – specify etiology (West Nile, Western Equine, St. Louis, Eastern Equine, California serogroup)
Invasive streptococcal disease or invasive meningococcal infection refers to isolates from normally sterile sites and includes meningitis, Septicemia, cellulitis, epiglottitis, osteomyelitis, pericarditis, and septic arthritis Revised June 01, 2004 Epi (ppjg)

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