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The following specified Reportable Diseases, (Ontario Regulation 559/91 and amendments under the Health Protection and Promotion Act, 1990) are to be reported to the Local Medical Officer of Health.

Note: Disease marked * and all respiratory infection outbreaks in institutions should be reported immediately to the Medical Officer of Health by telephone. Other diseases are to be reported the next working day.
  • Acquired Immunodeficiency
• Syndrome (AIDS)
• Amebiasis
• * Anthrax
• * Botulism
• * Brucellosis
• Campylobacter enteritis
• Chancroid
• Chickenpox (Varicella)
• Chlamydia trachomatis infections
• Cholera
• * Cryptosporidiosis
• * Cyclosporiasis
• Cytomegalovirus infection, congenital
• * Diphtheria
• * Encephalitits, including:
• 1. * Primary, viral (including WNV)
• 2. Post-infectious
• 3. Vaccine-related
• 4. Subacute sclerosing
• •  panencephalitis
• 5. Unspecified
• * Food poisoning, all causes
• * Gastroenteritis, institutional
• outbreaks
• * Giardiasis
• Gonorrhoea
• *Haemophilus influenza b disease,
• invasive
• * Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
• * Hemorrhagic fevers, including:
• 1. * Ebola virus disease
• 2. * Marburg virus disease
• 3. * Other viral causes
• * Hepatitis, viral
• * Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B
• Hepatitis C
• Hepatitis D (Delta hepatitis)
• Herpes, neonatal
• Influenza
• * Lassa Fever
• * Legionellosis
• Leprosy
• * Listeriosis
• Lyme Disease
• Malaria
• * Measles
 		 • * Meningitis, acute
• 1. * bacterial
• 2. viral
• 3. other
• * Meningococcal disease, invasive
• Mumps
• Ophthalmia neonatorum
• Paratyphoid fever
• Pertussis (Whopping Cough)
• * Plague
• * Poliomyelitis, acute
• Psittacosis/Omithosis
• * Q Fever
• * Rabies
• * Respiratory infection outbreaks
• in institutions
• Rubella
• Rubella, congenital syndrome
• Salmonellosis
• * Severe Acute Respiratory
• Syndrome (SARS)
• * Shigellosis
• * Smallpox
• * Streptococcal infections,
• Group A invasive
• Streptococcal infections,
• Group B neonatal
• Streptococcus pneumoniae,
• invasive (pneumococcal disease)
• Syphilis
• Tetanus
• Transmissible Spongiform
• Encephalopathy, (2003) including:
• 1. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease,
• •  all types
• 2. Gerstmann-Strassier-Scheinker
• • •Syndrome
• 3. Fatal Familial Insomnia
• 4. Kuru
• Trichinosis
• Tuberculosis
• * Tularemia
• Typhoid Fever
• * Verotoxin-producing E. coli
• infection indicator conditions
• including Haemolytic Uraemic
• Syndrome (HUS)
• * West Nile virus Illnesses
• 1. West Nile virus Fever
• 2. West Nile virus Neurological
••••Manifestations
• * Yellow Fever
• Yersiniosis

To report a disease or for more information please call The Leeds, Grenville & Lanark District Health Unit at: 613-345-5685 or 1-800-660-5853.

Reference:Health Protection and Promotion Act
ONTARIO REGULATION 558/91

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