Health care providers shall report all cases or suspected cases of the diseases, infections, microorganisms, and conditions specified below. The timing of Health Care Provider reports is specified to reflect the severity of the illness or condition and the potential value of rapid intervention by public health agencies.
When local public health authorities cannot be reached within the specified time limits, reports shall be made directly to OHA, which shall maintain an around-the-clock public health consultation service.
Licensed laboratories shall report all test results indicative of and specific for the diseases, infections, microorganisms, and conditions specified below. Such tests include but are not limited to: microbiological culture, isolation, or identification; assays for specific antibodies; and identification of specific antigens, toxins, or nucleic acid sequences.
Civil Penalites of Violations of Oregon Reporting Law
A civil penalty may be imposed against a person or entity for a violation of any provision in OAR chapter 333, division 18 or 19. These regulations include the requirements to report diseases listed below,along with related data; and to cooperate with local and state public health authorities in their investigation and control of reportable diseases. Civil penalities shall be imposed as follows:
Reportable diseases, infections, microorganisms, and conditions; and the time frames within which they must be reported by health care providers, are as follows:
Note: the posters to the right are being updated and will be available shortly.
Note that new reportables are denoted with red text.
Immediately, day or night:
Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)
Botulism (Clostridium botulinum)
Cholera (Vibrio cholerae 01, 0139, or toxigenic)
Diphtheria (Corynebacterium diphtheriae)
Hemorrhagic fever caused by viruses of the filovirus (e.g., Ebola, Marburg) are arena virus (e.g., Lassa, Machupo families)
Influenza (novel)
Marine Intoxication (intoxication caused by marine microorganisms or their by-products (e.g., paralytic shellfish poisoning, domoic acid intoxication, ciguatera, scombroid)
Measles (rubeola)
Plague (Yersinia pestis)
Poliomyelitis
Rabies (human)
Rubella
SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and infection by SARS-coronavirus)
Smallpox (variola major)
Tularemia (Francisella tularensis)
Yellow fever
Outbreaks and uncommon illnesses (any known or suspected common-source outbreak; any uncommon illness of potential publich health significance)
Within 24 hours (including weekends and holidays):
Haemophilus influenzae (any isolation or identification from a normally sterile site)
Neisseria meningitidis
Pesticide poisoning
Within one Local Public Health Authority working day:
Animal bites (of humans)
Arthropod vector-borne disease (babesiosis, California encephalitis, Colorado tick fever,dengue, Eastern equine encephalitis, ehrlichiosis, Kyasanur Forest disease, St. Louis encephalitis, West Nile fever, Western equine encephalitis, etc.)
Brucellosis (Brucella)
Campylobacteriosis (Campylobacter)
Chancroid (Haemophilus ducreyi)
Chlamydiosis (Chlamydia trachomotis, lymphogranuloma venerum)
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
Cryptococcosis (Cryptococcus)
Cryptosporidiosis (Cryptosporidium)
Cyclosporosis (Cyclospora cayetanesis)
Enterobacteriaceae family found to be non-susceptible to any carbapenum antibiotic
Escherichia coli (Shiga-toxigenic, including E. coli O157 and other serogroups)
Giardiasis (Giardia)
Gonococcal infections (Neisseria gonorrhoeae)
Hantavirus
Hemolytic uremic syndrome
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B (acute or chronic infection)
Hepatitis C
Hepatitis D (delta)
Hepatitis E
HIV infection (does not apply to anonymous testing) and AIDS
Influenza (laboratory confirmed) death of a person <18 years of age
Lead poisoning
Legionellosis (Legionella)
Leptospirosis (Leptospira)
Listeriosis (Listeria monocytogenes)
Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdoferi)
Malaria (Plasmodium)
Mumps
Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID, acute, non-gonococcal)
Pertussis (Bordetella pertussis)
Psittacosis (Chlamydophilia psittaci)
Q fever (Coxiella burnetii)
Relapsing fever (Borrelia)
Rickettsia (all species: Rocky Mountain spotted fever, typhus, others)
Salmonellosis (Salmonella, including typhoid)
Shigellosis (Shigella)
Syphilis (Treponema pallidium)
Taenia infection (including cysticercosis and tapeworm infections)
Tetanus (Clostridium tetani)
Tricinosis (Trichinella)
Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M. bovis)
Vibriosis (other than cholera)
Yersiniosis (other than plague)