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List of Reportable Diseases

(PA Code, Title 28, Chapter 27 | Updates 1 & 2 requiring electronic reporting.)

  1. AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) $
  2. Amebiasis
  3. Animal bite #
  4. Anthrax #
  5. An unusual cluster of isolates
  6. Arboviruses (includes Colorado tick fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, dengue, Eastern equine encephalitis, St. Louis encephalitis, West Nile virus infection, Yellow fever, et al.) #
  7. Botulism (all forms) #
  8. Brucellosis
  9. Campylobacteriosis
  10. Cancer ^
  11. CD4 T-lymphocyte test result with a count <200 cells/microliter, or a CD4 T-lymphocyte % of <14% of total lymphocytes $
  12. Chancroid
  13. Chickenpox (Varicella
  14. Chlamydia trachomatis infections
  15. Cholera #
  16. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) (<5y/old)
  17. COVID-19 #
  18. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
  19. Cryptosporidiosis
  20. Diphtheria #
  21. Encephalitis (all types)
  22. Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (shiga toxin-producing E. coli or STEC) #  *
  23. Food poisoning outbreak #
  24. Galactosemia (<5y/old)
  25. Giardiasis
  26. Gonococcal infections
  27. Granuloma inguinale
  28. Guillain-Barre syndrome
  29. Haemophilus influenzae invasive disease #  *
  30. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome #
  31. Hemorrhagic fever #
  32. Hepatitis, viral, acute and chronic cases
  33. Histoplasmosis
  34. HIV infection $
  35. Influenza (laboratory-confirmed only)
  36. Lead poisoning #
  37. Legionellosis #
  38. Leprosy (Hansen's Disease)
  39. Leptospirosis
  40. Listeriosis
  41. Lyme disease
  42. Lymphogranuloma venereum
  43. Malaria
  44. Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) (<5y/old)
  45. Measles (Rubeola) #
  46. Meningitis (all types--not limited to invasive Haemophilus influenzae or Neisseria meningitidis)
  47. Meningococcal invasive disease #  *
  48. Mumps
  49. Perinatal exposure of a newborn to HIV
  50. Pertussis (whooping cough)
  51. Phenylketonuria (PKU) (<5y/old)
  52. Plague #
  53. Poliomyelitis #
  54. Primary congenital hypothyroidism (<5y/old)
  55. Psittacosis (ornithosis)
  56. Rabies #
  57. Respiratory syncytial virus
  58. Rickettsial diseases/infections (includes Anaplasmosis, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Q fever, rickettsialpox, typhus, Ehrlichiosis)
  59. Rubella (German measles) and congenital rubella syndrome
  60. Salmonellosis  *
  61. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) #
  62. Shigellosis  *
  63. Sickle cell hemoglobinopathies (<5y/old)
  64. Smallpox #
  65. Staphylococcal aureus, Vancomycin Resistant (VRSA) or Intermediate (VISA) invasive disease
  66. Streptococcal invasive disease (Group A)
  67. Streptococcus pneumoniae, drug resistant invasive disease
  68. Syphilis (all stages)
  69. Tetanus
  70. Toxic shock syndrome
  71. Toxoplasmosis
  72. Trichinosis
  73. Tuberculosis, suspected or confirmed active disease (all sites) including the results of drug susceptibility testing
  74. Tularemia
  75. Typhoid fever #

For healthcare practitioners and healthcare facilities, all diseases are reportable within 5 work-days, unless otherwise noted.

#  Healthcare practitioners and healthcare facilities must report within 24 hours.

For clinical laboratories, all diseases are reportable by next work-day, unless otherwise noted.

$  Clinical laboratories must report within 5 days of obtaining the test result.
*
  In addition to reporting, clinical laboratories must also submit isolates to the state Laboratory within 5 work-days of isolation.
^  Hospitals, clinical laboratories, and healthcare facilities must report within 180 days.

BLUE not currently reportable via PA-NEDSS.

Please note that certain broad categories such as #22 (Food Poisoning Outbreak) should be construed to mean all such illnesses, even if the etiology is either not otherwise listed here, or a specific etiology cannot be determined. Further, all disease outbreaks and/or unusual occurrences of disease are reportable within the Commonwealth. Finally, note that local jurisdictions may require reports of additional conditions not listed here within their jurisdictions.