Diseases of public health significance must be reported to the Medical Officer of Health immediately or by the next working day. Reporting is required in accordance with Ontario Regulation 135/18 and amendments under the Health Protection and Promotion Act.
Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Report animal-to-human exposures or a suspected or confirmed case of human rabies, immediately to a public health inspector:
To report enteric, vector borne, zoonotic, or waterborne disease:
To report any other disease:
After hours and weekends
Forms
Reporting communicable diseases
Positive tuberculin skin test (TST) or QuantiFERON®-TB Gold Plus reporting form
Complete this form to report active tuberculosis (TB) disease and latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI).
Fax 705.677.9618 or email HPT_Fax_Confidential@phsd.ca.
Syphilis reporting form
Complete this form to report a case of syphilis.
Fax 705.677.9611.
Reporting diseases in animals
Animal incident reporting form
Complete this form to report all animal bites and scratches.
Fax 705.677.9607.
Reportable diseases in animals reporting form
Complete this form to report suspected and confirmed animal cases of avian chlamydiosis, Echinococcus multilocularis, avian influenza, and novel influenza in mammals.
Fax 705.677.9618.
List of diseases of public health significance
Download: Diseases of Public Health Significance (PDF)The following diseases must be reported immediately to the Medical Officer of Health in accordance with Ontario Regulations 135/18 and amendments under the Health Protection and Promotion Act:
- Anthrax
- Botulism
- Brucellosis
- Candida auris
- Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) outbreaks
- Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) outbreaks and outbreak-associated cases within hospitals, preliminary notification
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, all types
- Cyclosporiasis
- Diphtheria
- Diseases caused by a novel coronavirus, including Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
- Food poisoning, all causes
- Gastroenteritis, institutional outbreaks
- Group A Streptococcal disease, invasive
- Haemophilus influenzae disease, all types, invasive
- Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS)
- Hemorrhagic fevers, including:
- Ebola virus disease
- Marburg virus disease
- Lassa fever
- Other viral causes
- Hepatitis A, viral
- Influenza, laboratory confirmed cases of novel (not seasonal)
- Legionellosis
- Listeriosis
- Measles
- Meningitis, acute:
- Bacterial
- Viral
- Other
- Meningococcal disease, invasive
- Mumps
- Novel coronavirus
- Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP)
- Pertussis (Whooping cough)
- Plague
- Poliomyelitis, acute
- Q fever
- Rabies
- Respiratory infection outbreaks in institutions and public hospitals
- Rubella
- Rubella, congenital syndrome
- Salmonellosis
- Shigellosis
- Smallpox and other orthopoxviruses, including monkeypox (now referred to as mpox)
- Tetanus
- Tuberculosis (all sites)
- Tularemia
- Verotoxin-producing E.coli infection indicator conditions including hemolytic uremic syndrome
- West Nile Virus illness:
- Neurological Syndromes
- Non-Neurologic Syndromes
- Asymptomatic Infection
- Yersiniosis
The following diseases must be reported by the next working day to the Medical Officer of Health in accordance with Ontario Regulations 135/18 and amendments under the Health Protection and Promotion Act:
- *Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
- Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP)
- Adverse Event Following Immunization (AEFIs)
- Amebiasis
- Anaplasmosis
- Babesiosis
- Blastomycosis
- Campylobacter enteritis
- Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) colonizations and infections (cases)
- Chancroid
- Chickenpox (Varicella)
- Chlamydia trachomatis infections
- Cholera
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Echinococcus multilocularis infection
- Encephalitis, including:
- Primary, viral
- Post-infectious
- Vaccine-related
- Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
- Unspecified
- Giardiasis
- Gonorrhea
- Group B Streptococcal disease, neonatal
- Hepatitis, viral:
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Influenza, seasonal cases
- Leprosy
- Lyme disease
- Ophthalmia neonatorum
- Paratyphoid fever
- Powassan Virus Infection
- Pneumococcal disease, invasive
- Psittacosis/Ornithosis
- Syphilis
- Trichinosis
- Typhoid fever
*Although not on the list of reportable diseases, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection is also reportable to the Medical Officer of Health since it is the agent responsible for AIDS.