Nebraska's Reportable Diseases, Poisonings, Organisms & Events
Report Immediately:
- Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)*
- Botulism (Clostridium botulinum)*
- Brucellosis (Brucella species)*
- Cholera (Vibrio Cholerae)
- Diphtheria (Corynebacterium diptheriae)
- Clusters, Outbreaks or Unusual Events, Including
- Possible Bioterroristic Attacks * (Clusters, outbreaks or epidemics of any health problem, infectious or other, including food poisoning, influenza or possible bioterroristic attack; increased disease incidence beyond expectations; unexplained deaths possibly due to unidentified infectious causes; any unusual disease or manifestations of illness.)
- Glanders Burkholderia
- Haemophilus influenzae infection (invasive disease only)
- Hemolytic uremic syndrome (post-diarrheal illness)
- Hepatitis A (IgM antibody-positive or clinically diagnosed during an outbreak)
- Maarburg virus*
- Measles (Rubeola)
- Melioidosis [Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) pseudomallei]*
- Meningitis (Haemophilus influenzae or Neisseria meningitides)
- Meningococcemia (Neisseria meningitidis)
- Pertussis/whooping cough (Bordetella pertussis)
- Plague (Yersinia pestis)*
- Poliomyelitis
- Q fever (Coxiella burnetii)*
- Rabies, (human and animal cases and suspects)
- Rubella and congenital rubella syndrome
- Smallpox*
- Staphylococcal enterotoxin B intoxication*
- Staphylococcus aureus, vancomycin-intermediate/resistant (MIC>4 µg/mL)
- Tularemia (Francisella tularensis)*
- Typhus Fever, louse-borne (Rickettsia prowazekii) and flea-borne/endemic murine (Rickettsia typhi)
- Venezuelan equine encephalitis*
- Yellow Fever
Report Within Seven Days
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
- Amebiasis (Entamoeba histolytica)
- Babesiosis (Babesia species)
- Campylobacteriosis (Campylobacter species)
- Chlamydia trachomatis infections (nonspecific urethritis, cervicitis, salpingitis, neonatal conjunctivitis, pneumonia)
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (subacute spongiform encephalopathy)
- Cryptosporidiosis (Cryptosporidium parvum)
- Dengue virus infection
- Ehrlichiosis, human monocytic (Ehrlichia chaffeenis)
- Ehrlichiosis, human granulocytic (Ehrlichia phagocytophila)
- Enchephalitis (caused by viral agents)
- Escherichia coli gastroenteritis (E.coli O157-H7 and other pathogenic E. coli from gastrointestinal infection)
- Giardiasis (Giardia lamblia)
- Gonorrhea (Neisseria gonorrhoeae): venereal infection and ophthalmia neonatorum
- Hantavirus infection
- Hepatitis B [surface antigen or IgM core antibody positive; for laboratories doing confirmatory tests (e.g., blood banks), results of confirmatory tests for surface antigen or core antibody supersede results of screening tests]
- Hepatitis C (requires a positive serologic test; when a confirmatory test is done, the results of the confirmatory test supersede results of the screening test)
- Hepatitis D and E
- Herpes simplex, primary genital infection and neonatal, less than 30 days of age
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection
- Immunosuppression as described in 1-004.02C1, e
- Influenza (DFA positive or culture confirmed)
- Kawasaki disease (mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome)
- Lead poisoning (all analytical values for blood lead analysis shall be reported)
- Legionellosis (Legionella species)
- Leprosy (Mycobacterium leprae)
- Leptospirosis (Leptospira interrogans)
- Listeriosis (Listeria monocytogenes)
- Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi)
- Malaria (Plasmodium species)
- Meningitis, viral or caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae
- Methemoglobinemia/nitrate poisoning (methemoglobin greater than 5% of total hemoglobin)
- Mumps
- Poisoning or illness due to exposure to agricultural chemicals (herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers)
- Psittacosis (Chlamydia psittaci)
- Retrovirus infections (other than HIV)
- Rheumatic fever, acute (cases meeting the Jones criteria only)
- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (Rickettsia rickettsii)
- Salmonellosis, including typhoid (Salmonella species)
- Shigellosis (Shigella species)