Reportable Diseases/Conditions in Florida

Practitioner List (Laboratory Requirements Differ)

Per Rule 64D-3.029, Florida Administrative Code, promulgated October 20, 2016 Florida Department of Health

! Report immediately 24/7 by phone upon

initial suspicion or laboratory test order
The Florida Department of Health in Orange County Reporting Numbers: Report immediately 24/7 by phone
AIDS/HIV: 407-858-1437 STD: 407-858-1445 or FAX 407-836-7101  Report next business day
Tuberculosis: 407-858-1446 or FAX 407-836-2639 + Other reporting timeframe
All Others: 407-858-1420 or FAX 407-858-5517

Birth Defects 850-617-1440 ! Arboviral diseases not otherwise listed ! Meningococcal disease
+ Congenital anomalies  Babesiosis  Mercury poisoning
+ Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) ! Botulism, foodborne, wound, and  Mumps
unspecified Neurotoxic shellfish poisoning
Cancer 305-240-4600  Botulism, infant Paratyphoid fever (Salmonella serotypes
+ Cancer, excluding non-melanoma ! Brucellosis Paratyphi A, Paratyphi B, and Paratyphi C)
skin cancer and including benign and
borderline intracranial and CNS  California serogroup virus disease Pertussis
tumors  Campylobacteriosis  Pesticide-related illness and injury, acute
HIV/AIDS 407-858-1437  Carbon monoxide poisoning ! Plague
+ Acquired immune  Chikungunya fever ! Poliomyelitis
deficiency syndrome (AIDS) Chikungunya fever, locally acquired  Psittacosis (ornithosis)
+ Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) 
infection ! Cholera (Vibrio cholerae type O1) Q Fever

• HIV-exposed infants <18 months old born Ciguatera fish poisoning Rabies, animal or human
to an HIV-infected woman  Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) ! Rabies, possible exposure
STDs 407-858-1445  Cryptosporidiosis ! Ricin toxin poisoning
• Chancroid  Cyclosporiasis  Rocky Mountain spotted fever and other
spotted fever rickettsioses
• Chlamydia ! Dengue fever
! Rubella
• Conjunctivitis in neonates <14 days old ! Diphtheria
 St. Louis encephalitis

• Gonorrhea Eastern equine encephalitis
 Salmonellosis
 Ehrlichiosis/anaplasmosis
• Granuloma inguinale  Saxitoxin poisoning (paralytic shellfish
 Escherichia coli infection, Shiga toxin-
• Herpes simplex virus (HSV) in infants <60
producing
poisoning)
days old with disseminated infection and ! Severe acute respiratory disease
liver involvement; encephalitis; and  Giardiasis, acute syndrome associated with coronavirus
infections limited to skin, eyes, and ! Glanders infection
mouth; anogenital HSV in children <12 ! Haemophilus influenzae invasive disease  Shigellosis
years old in children <5 years old ! Smallpox
• Human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated  Hansen’s disease (leprosy)
Staphylococcal enterotoxin B poisoning
laryngeal papillomas or recurrent
respiratory papillomatosis in children <6 Hantavirus infection Staphylococcus aureus infection,
years old; anogenital papillomas in Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) intermediate or full resistance to
children ≤12 years old Hepatitis A vancomycin (VISA, VRSA)
• Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV)   Streptococcus pneumoniae invasive
Hepatitis B, C, D, E, and G
disease in children <6 years old
• Syphilis  Hepatitis B surface antigen in pregnant  Tetanus
Syphilis in pregnant women and neonates women and children <2 years old
 Trichinellosis (trichinosis)
Herpes B virus, possible exposure
Tuberculosis 407-858-1446 ! Tularemia
! Influenza A, novel or pandemic strains
Tuberculosis (TB) Influenza-associated pediatric mortality in Typhoid fever (Salmonella serotype Typhi)
All Others 407-858-1420 children <18 years old ! Typhus fever, epidemic
! Outbreaks of any disease, any case,  Lead poisoning (blood lead level ! Vaccinia disease
cluster of cases, or exposure to an ≥5 µg/dL)
 Varicella (chickenpox)
infectious or non-infectious disease,  Legionellosis
condition, or agent found in the general  Leptospirosis
! Venezuelan equine encephalitis
community or any defined setting (e.g.,  Vibriosis (infections of Vibrio species and
Listeriosis closely related organisms, excluding
hospital, school, other institution) not
listed that is of urgent public health  Lyme disease Vibrio cholerae type O1)
significance  Malaria ! Viral hemorrhagic fevers
Amebic encephalitis ! Measles (rubeola)  West Nile virus disease
! Anthrax ! Melioidosis ! Yellow fever
 Arsenic poisoning  Meningitis, bacterial or mycotic ! Zika fever

*Subsection 381.0031(2), Florida Statutes, provides that “Any practitioner licensed in this state to practice medicine, osteopathic medicine, chiropractic medicine, naturopathy, or
veterinary medicine; any hospital licensed under part I of chapter 395; or any laboratory licensed under chapter 483 that diagnoses or suspects the existence of a disease of public
health significance shall immediately report the fact to the Department of Health.” Florida’s county health departments serve as the Department’s representative in this reporting
requirement. Furthermore, subsection 381.0031(4), Florida Statutes, provides that “The Department shall periodically issue a list of infectious or noninfectious diseases determined by
it to be a threat to public health and therefore of significance to public health and shall furnish a copy of the list to the practitioners…”