All Delaware physicians, laboratories and other health care providers are required by regulations to report patients with the following conditions to the Office of Infectious Disease Epidemiology. Both lab-confirmed and clinical diagnoses are reportable within the time interval specified below. Reporting enables appropriate public health follow-up for your patients, helps identify outbreaks, and provides a better understanding of disease trends in Delaware. Follow this link to find out more information about Meaningful Use in Delaware.

How to Report

• Complete a Notifiable Disease Report PDF Form. 
• Email the form to the secure email reportdisease@delaware.gov. 
• If you are unable to email you can fax the Disease Report Form page to the Office of Infectious Disease Epidemiology Fax 302-622-4149.
•  If you do not have ability to fax, mail to Division of Public Health.
• For rapidly reportable conditions, as indicated with a (T) in the list below, immediately contact the Office of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the 24/7 Emergency Contact Number 1-888-295-5156
• If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Office of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at 302-744-4990.

What to Report

• Name
• Race
• Ethnicity
• Sex
• Phone
• Birth date
• Address
• Zip Code
• School or Type and Place of Employment
• Condition or Disease
• Date of Onset
• Laboratory data
• Hospital
• Remarks
• Physician’s Name
• Phone
• Address
• Date

NOTIFIABLE DISEASES

AIDS / HIV Stage III (S)

Acute flaccid myelitis

Alpha gal syndrome

Amebiasis

Anaplasmosis

Anthrax (T)

Arboviral human infections:

   Anaplasmosis

   Cache Valley virus disease

   California encephalitis virus disease

   California serogroup virus diseases

   Chikungunya virus disease

   Colorado tick fever virus disease

   Eastern equine encephalitis virus   disease

   Jamestown Canyon virus disease

   Japanese encephalitis virus disease

   Keystone virus disease

   La Crosse virus disease

   Powassan virus disease

   Snowshoe hare virus disease

   St. Louis encephalitis virus disease

   Tick-borne encephalitis viruses

   Trivittatus virus disease

   West Nile virus disease

   Western equine encephalitis virus disease

   Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus

   Zika virus disease

   Other Arboviral diseases, not otherwise specified

Babesiosis

Botulism (T)

Brucellosis (T)

Campylobacteriosis

Candida auris

Carbapenemase-Producing Organisms (CPO)

Carbon monoxide poisoning

Chancroid (S)

Chickenpox (Varicella)

Chlamydia (S)

Cholera (toxigenic Vibrio cholerae 01 or 0139) (T)

Coccidioidomycosis

Coronavirus, novel (novel coronavirus causing severe acute respiratory disease including the 2019 novel coronavirus disease [COVID-19], severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus disease [SARS-CoV], and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome [MERS-CoV]) (T)

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (T)

Cronobacter infection

Cryptosporidiosis

Cyclosporiasis

Cytomegalovirus (neonatal only)

Dengue virus infections (T)

Diphtheria (T)

Ehrlichiosis

Encephalitis

Enterobacteriaceae, carbapenem-resistant (invasive or urine only) (A)

Escherichia coli, Shigatoxin producing (STEC) (T)

ESBL B-lactamases-invasive only (A)

Foodborne Disease Outbreak (T)

Free living amebae infections

Giardiasis

Glanders (T)

Gonorrhea (S)

Granuloma inguinale (S)

Guillain-Barre

Haemophilus influenzae, invasive

Hansen's Disease (Leprosy)

Hantavirus (T)

Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (T)

Hepatitis A (T)

Hepatitis B

Hepatitis C

Hepatitis Other

Herpes, congenital (S)

Herpes, genital (S)

Histoplasmosis

HIV (S)

Human Papillomavirus (S)

Influenza

Influenza-associated pediatric mortality (T)

Kawasaki Syndrome

Lead, child blood, all test results

Legionellosis

Leptospirosis

Listeriosis

Lyme Disease

Lymphogranuloma venereum (S)

Malaria

Measles (T)

Melioidosis

Meningitis, Aseptic

Meningitis, Bacterial other

Meningococcal disease (Neisseria meningitidis) (T)

Mpox virus infection (T)

Mumps (T)

Norovirus

Nosocomial (Healthcare-Associated) Disease Outbreak (T)

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (N. gonorrhoeae, C. trachomatis, or unspecified) (S)

Pertussis (T)

Plague (T)

Poliomyelitis (T)

Psittacosis

Q Fever

Rabies (human and animal) (T)

Respiratory Syncytial virus-associated deaths (RSV)

Reye Syndrome

Rheumatic Fever

Ricin Toxin (T)

Rickettsial Disease

Rubella (including congenital, which is rapidly reportable [T])

Salmonellosis

Shigellosis

Silicosis

Smallpox (T)

Spotted fever rickettsiosis

Staphylococcal aureus, Vancomycin Intermediate or Resistant (VISA, VRSA) (T)

Staphylococcal Enterotoxin (T)

Streptococcal Disease, invasive

Streptococcus pneumoniae, invasive (A)

Syphilis, all stages (S)

Tetanus (T)

Toxic Shock Syndrome (Streptococcal or Staphylococcal)

Toxoplasmosis

Trichinellosis

Tuberculosis (T)

Tularemia (T)

Typhoid Fever (T)

Typhus Fever (endemic flea borne, louse borne, tick borne)

Vaccine Adverse Reaction

Vancomycin resistant Enterococcus, invasive only

Vibrio, non-cholera

Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (T)

Waterborne Disease Outbreaks (T)

Yellow Fever (T)

Yersiniosis

 

Reporting timeframe

(T) - call or email within 4 hours

(S) - sexually transmitted disease, report required within 24 hours

(A) - Drug-Resistant Organisms required to be reported within 48 hours

All others - report required within 48 hours

 

 

 

 

Office of Infectious Disease Epidemiology

24/7 Emergency Contact Number: 1-888-295-5156

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