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Health Protection and Promotion Act

ONTARIO REGULATION 559/91

SPECIFICATION OF REPORTABLE DISEASES

Historical version for the period March 29, 2018 to April 30, 2018.

Note: This Regulation is revoked on May 1, 2018, the day subsection 14 (4) of Schedule 3 to the Strengthening Quality and Accountability for Patients Act, 2017 comes into force. (See: O. Reg. 135/18, s. 3)

Last amendment: 135/18.

Legislative History: 205/95, 129/96, 381/01, 432/01, 81/03, 96/03, 365/06, 49/07, 304/08, 315/13, 135/18.

This is the English version of a bilingual regulation.

1. The following diseases are specified as reportable diseases for the purposes of the Act:

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

Acute Flaccid Paralysis

Amebiasis

Anthrax

Botulism

Brucellosis

Campylobacter enteritis

Chancroid

Chickenpox (Varicella)

Chlamydia trachomatis infections

Cholera

Clostridium difficile associated disease (CDAD) outbreaks in public hospitals

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, all types

Cryptosporidiosis

Cyclosporiasis

Diphtheria

Encephalitis, including,

i. Primary, viral

ii. Post-infectious

iii. Vaccine-related

iv. Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis

v. Unspecified

Food poisoning, all causes

Gastroenteritis, institutional outbreaks

Giardiasis, except asymptomatic cases

Gonorrhoea

Group A Streptococcal disease, invasive

Group B Streptococcal disease, neonatal

Haemophilus influenzae b disease, invasive

Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome

Hemorrhagic fevers, including,

i. Ebola virus disease

ii. Marburg virus disease

iii. Other viral causes

Hepatitis, viral,

i. Hepatitis A

ii. Hepatitis B

iii. Hepatitis C

Influenza

Lassa Fever

Legionellosis

Leprosy

Listeriosis

Lyme Disease

Malaria

Measles

Meningitis, acute,

i. bacterial

ii. viral

iii. other

Meningococcal disease, invasive

Mumps

Ophthalmia neonatorum

Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning

Paratyphoid Fever

Pertussis (Whooping Cough)

Plague

Pneumococcal disease, invasive

Poliomyelitis, acute

Psittacosis/Ornithosis

Q Fever

Rabies

Respiratory infection outbreaks in institutions

Rubella

Rubella, congenital syndrome

Salmonellosis

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

Shigellosis

Smallpox

Syphilis

Tetanus

Trichinosis

Tuberculosis

Tularemia

Typhoid Fever

Verotoxin-producing E. coli infection indicator conditions, including Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (HUS)

West Nile Virus Illness

Yellow Fever

Yersiniosis

O. Reg. 559/91, s. 1; O. Reg. 205/95, s. 1; O. Reg. 129/96, s. 1; O. Reg. 381/01, s. 1; O. Reg. 432/01, s. 1; O. Reg. 81/03, s. 1; O. Reg. 96/03, s. 1; O. Reg. 365/06, s. 1; O. Reg. 304/08, s. 1; O. Reg. 315/13, s. 1.

2. Omitted (revokes other Regulations).  O. Reg. 559/91, s. 2.