1. Surveillance Site Reporting Requirements for Infectious Diseases
Updated January 2019
Training Materials produced by the Tuscarawas County Health Department utilizing the Ohio Department of Health Infectious Disease Control Manual (IDCM) and Ohio Administrative Code Chapter

2. Utilizing This Tool
This is a self guided training tool provided to any surveillance site to familiarize individuals with reporting requirements established in Ohio Administrative Code through

3. WHO is considered a surveillance site?
Ohio reportable disease reporting requirements outline
WHO must report including:
Healthcare providers (physicians, hospitals, infection preventionists) with knowledge of a case or suspected case of a disease which must be reported
Laboratorians that examine specimens of human origin
with evidence of diseases which are required to be reported
Any individual having knowledge of a person suffering from a disease suspected of being communicable

4. WHAT must be reported?
Diseases on Ohio’s ABC list (see next slides)

5. ABC List (Alphabetical Order)
Updated March 22, Ohio Administrative Code
Name
Class
Amebiasis B
Anthrax A
Arboviral neuroinvasive and non-
neuroinvasive disease
Babesiosis
Botulism, infant
Botulism, wound
Botuslism, Foodborne
Brucellosis
Campylobacteriosis
Carbapenemase-producing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CP-CRE)
Chancroid
Chlamydia trachomatis infections
Chikungunya

6. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
Name
Class
Cholera A
Coccidioidomycosis B
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
Cryptosporidiosis
Cyclosporiasis
Dengue
Diphtheria
E.Coli and Shiga toxin producing E.Coli
Eastern equine encephalitis virus disease
Ehrlichiosis/Anaplasmosis
Giardiasis
Gonorrhea
Haemophilus Influenzae
Hantavirus

7. Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) B
Name
Class
Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) B
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B (non-perinatal)
Hepatitis B (perinatal)
Hepatitis C
Hepatitis D (delta hepatitis)
Hepatitis E
Influenza A – novel virus A
Influenza-associated hospitalization
Influenza-associated pediatric mortality
LaCrosse virus disease (other California
serogroup virus disease)
Legionnaire’s disease
Leprosy (Hansen disease)
Leptospirosis

8. Name
Class
Listeriosis B
Lyme Disease
Malaria
Measles A
Meningitis, aseptic (viral)
Meningitis, bacterial
Meningococcal disease
MERS
Mumps
Other anthropod-borne disease
Outbreaks: community, foodborne, healthcare- associated, institutional, waterborne, zoonotic C
Pertussis

9. Poliomyelitis (including vaccine associated cases) B
Name
Class
Plague A
Poliomyelitis (including vaccine associated cases) B
Powassan virus disease
Psittacosis
Q fever
Rabies, human
Rubella (congenital)
Rubella (non congenital)
Salmonellosis
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
Shigellosis
Smallpox
Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis, including Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF)

10. St. Louis encephalitis virus disease B
Name
Class
St. Louis encephalitis virus disease B
Staphylococcus aureus, with resistance or intermediate resistance to vancomycin (VRSA, VISA)
Streptococcal disease, group A, invasive
Streptococcal disease, group B, in newborn
Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS)
Streptococcus pneumonia, invasive disease
Syphilis
Tetanus
Toxic Shock Syndrome
Trichinellosis
Tuberculosis, including multi-drug resistant
tuberculosis
Tularemia A

11. Viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) A
Name
Class
Typhoid fever B
Typhus fever
Varicella
Vibriosis
Viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) A
West Nile virus infection
Western equine encephalitis virus disease
Yellow fever
Yersinosis
Zika Virus

12. WHEN must a report be made?
Class A disease – immediately by phone
Class B disease – by the end of the next business day
Class C disease – by the end of the next business day

13. WHERE must the report be made?
Healthcare providers and laboratorians should report to the local health jurisdiction in which the case or suspected case resides
If the residence is unknown, report to the local health jurisdiction in which the healthcare provider or laboratory is located
If the residence is outside of Ohio, report to the state of patient residence

14. WHAT information is needed for a report?
Healthcare providers:
Name of case or suspected case
Diagnosis or suspected diagnosis
Date of birth of case of suspected case
Sex of case or suspected case
Telephone number of case or suspected case
Street address including city, state and zip code of case or
suspected case
Supplementary surveillance information
Healthcare provider name, telephone number and street address

15. Laboratorians: Name of case or suspected case
Date of birth of case or suspected case
Sex of case or suspected case
Street address including city, state and zip code of case or suspected case
Healthcare provider name, telephone number and street
address
Laboratory testing information
Specimen identification number
Specimen collection date
Specimen type
Test name
Test result
Organism and serotype, if possible

16. HOW must a report be made?
Class A – immediately by phone, follow-up with HEA as instructed by health jurisdiction; follow up can also be done through direct entry into Ohio Disease Reporting System (ODRS)
Class B and C – HEA 3333; Class B and C can also be
done through direct entry into ODRS
Labs that report 200 or more Class A,B or C diseases each year should be working towards Electronic Laboratory Reporting (ELR)

17. HOW to report to TCHD:
During normal business hours: Call (330) and press 0 to speak with the operator
Ask to make a report to one of the following individuals:
Infectious Disease Nurse
Director of Nursing
Health Commissioner
For Class B and C diseases reports can also be made via online form located at:
reporting.html

18. Class A After-Hours Reporting:
TCHD has 24/7 capability for class A reporting and public health emergencies
After-hours, weekend and holidays call (330) and listen to the prompts. You will be given another number to contact and be asked to leave a name and call back number
A qualified staff member from TCHD will return your call promptly

19. Questions
Any questions regarding surveillance site reporting may be directed to TCHD at:
897 East Iron Avenue
Dover, Ohio 44622
(330)