Division of Preparedness, Response, Infectious Disease, and Emergency Medical Services
3 Capitol Hill, Room 106, Providence, RI 02908
Reportable Diseases List for Clinical Providers
To report by phone: 401-222-2577 | After Hours: 401-276-8046 | Cases may also be reported electronically or by
mail. To report by secure fax: STDs: 401-222-1105 | Animal Bites: 401-222-2477 | All Other Diseases: 401-222-2488
Rhode Island State Health Laboratories support is available by calling 401-222-5600.
For more information and to download forms, visit [Link]
Report the following diseases and conditions IMMEDIATELY by phone upon recognition or suspicion of disease.
Laboratory confirmation is not necessary prior to report being filed. Diseases in blue are potential agents of bioterrorism.
• Animal bites • Hantavirus Pulmonary • Ricin poisoning
• Anthrax Syndrome • SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)
• Arboviral infections (e.g., West • Hepatitis A2 • SARS-CoV-2 associated deaths
Nile, Eastern Equine • Measles (Rubeola) • SARS-CoV-2 associated hospitalizations
Encephalitis, Powassan, Zika, • Meningococcal disease- • Scombroid poisoning
invasive1 • Smallpox (Variola)
Chikungunya, Yellow Fever)
• Middle East Respiratory • Staphylococcus aureus invasive infections:
• Botulism Syndrome (MERS) VRSA/VISA
• Brucellosis • Melioidosis • Staphylococcal enterotoxin B poisoning
• Cholera • Middle East Respiratory • Tularemia
• Ciguatera Syndrome (MERS)
• Staphylococcal enterotoxin B poisoning
• Clostridium perfringens epsilon • Outbreaks and clusters
• Typhoid fever (Salmonella typhi)
toxin • Novel or emerging respiratory
• Unexplained deaths
viruses
• Diphtheria (Possibly due to unidentified
• Paralytic shellfish poisoning
• Encephalitis (infectious causes) • Plague
infectious causes)
• Glanders • Poliomyelitis • Vibriosis
• Q-Fever • Viral hemorrhagic fevers (e.g., Ebola,
• Rabies Lassa, Marburg)
Report the following diseases and conditions within 4 days of recognition or suspicion of disease3:
• Acute flaccid myelitis • Hepatitis B, C, D, E (all acute • Pneumococcal disease1
• Anaplasmosis cases and pregnant women with • Rickettsiosis, including Rocky
chronic illness) and unspecified
• Babesiosis (all species) viral hepatitis2
Mountain Spotted Fever
• Campylobacteriosis • HIV 1 and 2. Report pregnancy • Rubella (including congenital
• Carbapenem resistant in women with HIV. Report by rubella)
Gram-negative bacteria confidential mail only. • Salmonellosis
(CP-CRE) • Influenza associated deaths, • Shigellosis
• Chancroid hospitalizations, and novel virus • Streptococcal disease
• Chlamydia trachomatis infections (invasive Group A & B)1
• Coccidioidomycosis • Latent Tuberculosis Infection • Streptococcal Toxic Shock
• Cryptosporidiosis • Legionellosis Syndrome
• Cyclosporiasis • Leptospirosis • Syphilis-all stages including
• Dengue virus • Listeriosis1 neurosyphilis and congenital
• Lyme disease
• Ehrlichiosis syphilis
• Lymphogranuloma Venereum •
• Escherichia coli, Shiga toxin- Tetanus
• Malaria • Toxic Shock Syndrome
producing (STEC)
• Meningitis (aseptic, bacterial, •
• Giardiasis Transmissible spongiform
viral, or fungal)
• Gonorrhea encephalopathies (including
• Multisystem Inflammatory
• Granuloma Inguinale Creutzfeldt Jakob disease)
Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)
(Klebsiella granulomatis) • Trichinosis
• Mumps
• Haemophilus influenzae • Tuberculosis disease
• Ornithosis/Psittacosis
disease, all serotypes1 • Varicella
• Pelvic inflammatory disease
• Hansen's disease or Leprosy • Yersiniosis
• Pertussis
• Hemolytic uremic syndrome
1 Invasivedisease only: confirmed by isolation from blood, CSF, pericardial fluid, pleural fluid, peritoneal fluid, joint fluid, or other normally sterile site.
2 Alsoreport AST, ALT, and bilirubin
3 Report patient’s name, address, gender, race, ethnicity, date of birth, age, and phone number with attending physician’s name and phone number
May 2022