LIST OF REPORTABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES IN BC July 2009
Schedule A: Reportable by all sources, including Laboratories Meningococcal Disease, All Invasive including “Primary Meningococcal Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Pneumonia” and “Primary Meningococcal Anthrax Conjunctivitis” Botulism Mumps Brucellosis Neonatal Group B Streptococcal Infection Chancroid Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) Cholera Pertussis (Whooping Cough) Congenital Infections: Plague Toxoplasmosis Poliomyelitis Rubella Rabies Cytomegalovirus Reye Syndrome Herpes Simplex Rubella Varicella-Zoster Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Hepatitis B Virus Smallpox Listeriosis and any other congenital infection Streptococcus pneumoniae Infection, Invasive Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease Syphilis Cryptococcal infection Tetanus Cryptosporidiosis Transfusion Transmitted Infection Cyclospora infection Tuberculosis Diffuse Lamellar Keratitis Tularemia Diphtheria: Typhoid Fever and Paratyphoid Fever Cases Waterborne Illness Carriers All causes Encephalitis: West Nile Virus Infection Post-infectious Yellow Fever Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis Vaccine-related Viral Schedule B: Reportable by Laboratories only Foodborne illness: All causes All specific bacterial and viral stool pathogens: Gastroenteritis epidemic: (i) Bacterial: Bacterial Campylobacter Parasitic Salmonella Viral Shigella Genital Chlamydia Infection Yersinia Giardiasis (ii) Viral Gonorrhea – all sites Amoebiasis Group A Streptococcal Disease, Invasive Borrelia burgdorferi infection H5 and H7 strains of the Influenza virus Cerebrospinal Fluid Micro-organisms Haemophilus influenzae Disease, Chlamydial Diseases, including Psittacosis All Invasive, by Type Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome Cryptococcal Infection Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) Herpes Genitalis Hemorrhagic Viral Fevers Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Hepatitis Viral: Influenza virus, including the H5 and H7 strains Hepatitis A Legionellosis Hepatitis B Leptospirosis Hepatitis C Listeriosis Hepatitis E Malaria Other Viral Hepatitis Q Fever Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Rickettsial Diseases Leprosy Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Lyme Disease Smallpox Measles Tularemia Meningitis: All causes West Nile Virus Infection (i) Bacterial: Haemophilus Pneumococcal Other (ii) Viral
As per Health Act Communicable Disease Regulation B.C. Reg. 4/83 O.C. 6/83 includes amendments up to B.C. Reg. 70/2008, April 10, 2008 http://www.qp.gov.bc.ca/statreg/reg/H/Health/4_83.htm