As of May 1st, 2018, “Reportable Diseases" are now referred to as "Diseases of Public Health Significance". Malaria and yellow fever are no longer reportable.
Download the full Diseases of Public Health Significance list.
Health care providers who suspect or have confirmation of the “Diseases of Public Health Significance”, or their “etiologic agents”, as per Ontario Reg 135/18 and amendments under the Health Protection and Promotion Act, must report them to the local Medical Officer of Health.
Report diseases listed below to:
- Fax: (807) 625-4822 OR Phone: 625-8318 or toll-free at 1-888-294-6630, ext. 8318
- For after hours, weekends, and holidays call the Thunder Bay Answering Service at (807) 624-1280
- Fill out and fax form to (807) 625-4822
For more information on each of the diseases, click on the disease in the list below OR on the navigation bar to the left. Information on each disease will be reviewed annually as well as updated immediately as needed. Please use the contact information listed above should you have any questions about the information on each disease.
Report Immediately:
- Anthrax
- Botulism
- Brucellosis
- Candida auris
- Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) outbreaks in public hospitals
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, all types
- Diphtheria
- Gastroenteritis outbreaks in institutions and public hospitals
- Group A Streptococcal disease, invasive
- Haemophilus influenza disease, all types, invasive
- Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
- Hemorrhagic fevers, including:
- Ebola virus disease
- Marburg virus disease
- Lassa Fever
- Other viral causes
- Hepatitis, viral
- Measles
- Meningitis, acute
- Bacterial
- Meningococcal disease, invasive
- Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
- Plague
- Poliomyelitis, acute
- Q Fever
- Rabies
- Respiratory infection outbreaks in institutions and public hospitals
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
- Smallpox
Report By Next Working Day:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
- Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP)
- Amebiasis
- Anaplasmosis
- Babesiosis
- Blastomycosis
- Campylobacter enteritis
- Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE), infection or colonization
- Chancroid
- Chickenpox (Varicella)
- Chlamydia trachomatis infections
- Cholera
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Cyclosporiasis
- Echinococcus Multiocularis infection
- Encephalitis, including:
- Post-infectious
- Vaccine-related
- Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
- Unspecific
- Primary, viral
- Food poisoning, all causes
- Giardiasis, except asymptomatic cases
- Gonorrhea
- Group B Streptococcal disease, neonatal
- Hepatitis, viral
- Influenza
- Legionellosis
- Leprosy
- Listeriosis
- Lyme Disease
- Meningitis, acute
- Viral
- Other
- Bacterial
- Monkeypox and Other Orthopoxvirusesr
- Mumps
- Ophthalmia neonatorum
- Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP)
- Paratyphoid Fever
- Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
- Pneumococcal disease, invasive
- Powassan Virus
- Psittacosis/Ornithosis
- Rubella
- Rubella, congenital syndrome
- Salmonellosis
- Shigellosis
- Syphilis
- Tetanus
- Trichinosis
- Tuberculosis
- Tularemia
- Typhoid Fever
- Verotoxin-producing E. coli infection including: Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (HUS)
- West Nile Virus Illness
- Yersiniosis
For Further Information
Call the Infectious Disease Program: (807) 625-5900
or toll-free: 1-888-294-6630