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Diseases of Public Health Significance

The Health Unit's Diseases of Public Health Significance Form (DOC) outlines the communicable diseases that must be reported by physicians, laboratories, administrators of hospitals, schools and institutions to the local Medical Officer of Health (as stated in Ontario Regulation 135/18 and Reg. 569 under the Health Protection and Promotion Act R.S.O. 1990, Chapter H.7). The Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) explicitly allows health care providers to disclose information to the local Medical Officer of Health for purposes outlined under the HPPA.


Monkeypox Information for Health Professionals

Effective June 16, 2022, monkeypox has been designated a Disease of Public Health Significance (DOPHS) as “Smallpox and other Orthopoxviruses including Monkeypox” under the Health Protection and Promotion Act (HPPA).

Healthcare providers are now required to immediately report (including evenings and weekends) all probable and confirmed cases of Monkeypox directly to the local Medical Officer of Health.

For more information, please follow the links below to read the memo from Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, as well as the relevant case definitions and disease-specific information in the Provincial Infectious Disease Protocol.

 


Download: Reportable Disease Notification Form

Veterinary Reporting Requirements

 

Reporting Timelines

The following is a list of Diseases of Public Health Significance that must be reported to the local Medical Officer of Health within the prescribed timelines for reporting.

Immediate Reporting Required

Report ASAP or by next working day

 

Notify the Middlesex-London Health Unit of a Disease of Public Health Significance

  • 519-663-5317
    Monday to Friday
    8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
  • 519-663-5317 (option 2)
    After hours, weekends and holidays
 

Immediate Reporting Required 

(Confirmed and Suspect Cases and Outbreaks)

Immediate reporting is required for the following diseases due to the need for public health follow-up.  Immediate reporting is also required: a) For clusters of any reportable diseases and b) When the Health Unit issues an alert requesting immediate reporting. 

Anthrax

Meningococcal disease, invasive

Botulism

Mumps

Brucellosis

Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP)

Cholera

Paratyphoid Fever

Clostridium difficile associated disease (CDAD) outbreaks in public hospitals

Pertussis

Coronavirus (Novel Coronavirus)

Plague

Diphtheria

Poliomyelitis, acute

Food poisoning, all causes

Psittacosis/Ornithosis

Gastroenteritis, outbreaks in institutions and public hospitals

Rabies

Group A Streptococcal Disease, invasive

Respiratory infection outbreaks in institutions and public hospitals

Haemophilus influenza disease, all types, invasive

Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome

Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome

SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)

Hemorrhagic fevers, including Ebola and Marburg Virus Disease, Lassa Fever & other viral causes

Shigellosis

Hepatitis A

Smallpox and other Orthopoxviruses including Monkeypox

Influenza (health care facility cases)

Tuberculosis

Influenza (Novel, not seasonal)

Tularemia

Legionellosis

Typhoid Fever

Measles

Verotoxigenic-producing E. coli infection indicator conditions, including hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS)

Meningitis, acute: bacterial, viral and other causes

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Report as soon as possible, or by next working day 

(Confirmed and Suspect Cases)

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

Hepatitis C

Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) 

Influenza (Community cases)-

Amebiasis

Leprosy 

Anaplasmosis

Listeriosis

Babesiosis

Lyme Disease
Blastomycosis

Ophthalmia neonatorum

Campylobacter enteritis

Pneumococcal disease (Streptococcus pneumoniae), invasive

Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE), colonization or infection  Powassan Virus
Chancroid

Q fever

Chickenpox, varicella  

Salmonellosis

 Chlamydia trachomatis infections

Syphilis
Cryptosporidiosis Tetanus
Cyclosporiasis

Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (e.g. CJD)

Echinococcus multilocularis infection

 Trichinosis

Encephalitis primary viral, post-infectious, vaccine-related, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis and unspecified West Nile Virus

Giardiasis (except asymptomatic cases)

Yersiniosis

Gonorrhoea

 

Group B Streptococcal disease, neonatal

 

Hepatitis B

 

 

Veterinary Reporting Requirements

Due to increasing number of cases in the province, please be advised that as of January 1, 2018, amendments to O.Reg. 557 (Communicable Diseases – General) under the Health Protection and Promotion Act came into force, which now require veterinarians and directors of veterinary laboratories to report the following animal cases to Middlesex-London Health Unit:

  • Suspect and confirmed cases of avian chlamydiosis
  • Suspect and confirmed cases of avian influenza
  • Suspect and confirmed cases of novel influenza in mammals (defined as any influenza virus not already known to be endemically circulating in Ontario’s animal species)
  • Suspect and confirmed cases of Echinococcus multilocularis infection

To report any of the above, please complete the Veterinary Reportable Disease Form (DOC) and fax to the Middlesex-London Health Unit at 519-663-8241 or call the Health Unit directly at 519-663-5317.

 
Date of creation: February 28, 2013
Last modified on: March 18, 2024