List of Reportable Diseases: Department of Health

Immediately Reportable Diseases & Conditions

Based on State regulations, the following diseases and conditions must be reported to the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) on the day of recognition or strong suspicion of disease (401-222-2577 or 401-276-8046 after hours). Also report all clusters and outbreaks of illnesses that may not be listed below.

Laboratory confirmation is not necessary before reporting. For help with specimen collection and handling, review our Clinical Specimen Submssion Guidance or call 401-222-5600.

All clusters and outbreaks, Note: Congregate living facilities should report clusters and outbreaks of noro-like illness, flu, COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases at redcap.link/ridoh-reporting. For other outbreaks, call 401-222-2577 or call 401-276-8046 after hours.

Novel or emerging respiratory viruses

Unexplained death possibly due to unidentified infectious causes

Animal bites Report Form

Chikungunya Virus Infection (Chikungunya) Report Form

Ciguatera (Harmful Algae Blooms (HABs)) Report Form

COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) , Note: Not individually reportable. See note under 'All clusters and outbreaks' above.

Diphtheria Report Form

Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) Report Form

Encephalitis Arboviral or parainfectious Report Form

Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) Report Form

Hepatitis A (Hep A) Report Form , Note: Also report AST, ALT, and bilirubin

Influenza (Flu) , Note: Not individually reportable. See note under 'All clusters and outbreaks' above.

Measles Report Form

Meningococcal Disease Bacterial (Meningitis, bacterial) Report Form , Note: Invasive Disease only: confirmed by isolation from blood, CSF, pericardial fluid, pleural fluid, peritoneal fluid, joint fluid, or other normally sterile site.

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) Report Form

Monkeypox Virus (Mpox) Report Form

Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning, Ciguatera) Report Form

Poliomyelitis (Polio) Report Form

Powassan Report Form

Pustular Rash Diseases (smallpox, monkeypox, cowpox) Report Form

Rabies Report Form

Scombroid Report Form

Staphylococcal Infection Vancomycin Intermediate (VISA) Report Form

Staphylococcal Infection Vancomycin Resistant (VRSA) Report Form

Typhoid Fever Group D Report Form

Vibrio cholerae (Cholera) Report Form

Vibriosis (Vibrio) Report Form

West Nile Virus Report Form

Yellow Fever Report Form

Zika Virus Infection (Zika) Report Form

Potential Agents of Bioterrorism

Report to RIDOH IMMEDIATELY (401-222-2577 or 401-276-8046 after hours) when there is suspicion of infection due to these agents. For help with specimen collection and handling, review our Clinical Specimen Submission Guidance or call 401-222-5600.

Anthrax Report Form

Botulism Report Form

Brucellosis Report Form

Clostridium Perfringens (Epsilon Toxin) Report Form

Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever (Ebola) Report Form

Glanders Report Form

Melioidosis Report Form

Plague; Bubonic, Septicemic, Pneumonic (Plague) Report Form

Q-Fever Report Form

Ricin Poisoning Report Form

Smallpox Report Form

Staphylococcal Food Poisoning Enterotoxin - B Poisoning (Staph Food Poisoning) Report Form

Tularemia (Rabbit fever) Report Form

Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (Ebola, Lassa, Marburg) Report Form

Report within 4 days of recognition

Report these diseases and conditions to RIDOH within 4 days of recognition using the link after each disease or condition below or this Report Form. For help with specimen collection and handling, review our Clinical Specimen Submission Guidance or call 401-222-5600.

Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM)

Alpha-gal Syndrome (AGS) Report Form

Anaplasmosis Report Form

Babesiosis Report Form

Campylobacteriosis Report Form

Carbapenem-resistant Infection (CRE/CRPA) Report Form

Chancroid Report Form

Chlamydia Report Form

Coccidioidomycosis fungal infection (Valley fever) Report Form

Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (CJD) Report Form

Cryptosporidiosis (Crypto) Report Form

Cyclosporiasis Report Form

Dengue 1,2,3,4 (Dengue Fever) Report Form

E. coli infection Shiga toxin-producing (STEC) Report Form

Ehrlichiosis Report Form

Giardiasis (Giardia) Report Form

Gonococcal Infection (Gonorrhea) Report Form

Granuloma inguinale Report Form

Haemophilus Influenza disease Type B (Hib or H-flu) Report Form , Note: Invasive Disease only: confirmed by isolation from blood, CSF, pericardial fluid, pleural fluid, peritoneal fluid, joint fluid, or other normally sterile site.

Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) Report Form

Hepatitis B (Hep B) Report Form , Note: Report AST, ALT and bilirubin also

Hepatitis C (Hep C/HCV) Report Form , Note: Report AST, ALT and bilirubin also

Hepatitis D (Hep D) Report Form , Note: Report AST, ALT and bilirubin also

Hepatitis E (Hep E) Report Form , Note: Report AST, ALT and bilirubin also

Human Immunodeficiency Virus/AIDS (HIV/AIDS) Report Form , Note: Report pregnancy in women with HIV.

Legionellosis (Legionnaires Disease) Report Form

Leprosy (Hansens Disease) Report Form

Leptospirosis Report Form

Listeriosis (Listeria) Report Form , Note: Invasive Disease only: confirmed by isolation from blood, CSF, pericardial fluid, pleural fluid, peritoneal fluid, joint fluid, or other normally sterile site.

Lyme Disease Report Form

Lymphogranuloma venereum infection (LGV) Report Form

Malaria Report Form

Meningitis Viral (Meningitis, viral) Report Form , Note: all suspected types (aseptic, bacterial, fungal, or viral)

Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)

Mumps Report Form

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) Report Form

Pertussis (Whooping Cough) Report Form

Pneumococcal Disease (Pneumonia) Report Form , Note: Invasive Disease only: confirmed by isolation from blood, CSF, pericardial fluid, pleural fluid, peritoneal fluid, joint fluid, or other normally sterile site.

Psittacosis (Parrot Fever) Report Form

Rickettsiosis (Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever) Report Form

Rubella Including congenital (German Measles) Report Form

Salmonellosis gastroenteritis (Salmonella) Report Form

Shigellosis gastroenteritis (Shigella) Report Form

Streptococcal Disease Group A (Group A Strep) Report Form , Note: Invasive Disease only: confirmed by isolation from blood, CSF, pericardial fluid, pleural fluid, peritoneal fluid, joint fluid, or other normally sterile site.

Streptococcal Disease Group B (Strep-B) Report Form , Note: Invasive Disease only: confirmed by isolation from blood, CSF, pericardial fluid, pleural fluid, peritoneal fluid, joint fluid, or other normally sterile site.

Streptococcal Toxic-Shock Syndrome STSS, Toxic Shock (STSS, TSS) Report Form

Syphilis primary, secondary, early latent, late latent, congenital Report Form

Tetanus Infection tetani (Lock Jaw) Report Form

Trichonosis Infection (Trichinosis) Report Form

Tuberculosis (Latent) (LTBI) Report Form

Tuberculosis, Mycobacteriosis Report Form , Note: all sites PPD + in children < 6

Typhus Report Form

Varicella (Chickenpox) Report Form , Note: Associated Deaths

Yersenia (Yersinia) Report Form

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Reportable Diseases & Conditions

Immediately Reportable Diseases & Conditions

Potential Agents of Bioterrorism

Report within 4 days of recognition