Epidemiology (communicable or infectious disease) services are provided to limit the spread of communicable disease through investigation, education, and recommendations for prevention. In addition, Epidemiology systematically collects, analyzes, and interprets health data essential to improving health and limiting illness, injury, disability, and death among the residents. This program delivers services to all residents of Health District 2.
Disease Fact Sheets
Disease fact sheets relevant to our area can be found in the fact sheet index. The Centers for Disease Control has a more comprehensive listing of diseases on their website.
Idaho Reportable Diseases
Idaho reportable disease list (printable version)
- Anthrax [immediately]
- Botulism: foodborne, infant, other [immediately]
- Brucellosis [24 hours]
- Campylobacteriosis
- Chancroid
- Chlamydia trachomatis
- Cholera [24 hours]
- Diphtheria [immediately]
- E. coli O157:H7, other toxigenic non-O157 strains [24 hours]
- Gonorrhea (Neisseria gonorrhoeae)
- Haemophilus influenzae, invasive disease [24 hours]
- Legionellosis/Legionnaire’s disease
- Leprosy
- Leptospirosis
- Listeriosis
- Lyme disease
- Neisseria meningitidis, invasive [24 hours]
- Pertussis [24 hours]
- Plague [immediately]
- Psittacosis
- Relapsing fever (tick and louse-borne)
- Salmonellosis (including typhoid fever) [24 hours]
- Shigellosis (all species)
- Streptococcus, group A, invasive
- Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus), <18y
- Syphilis
- Tetanus
- Tuberculosis
- Tularemia [24 hours]
- Yersiniosis (all spp.)
- Rickettsia and Parasites
- Amebiasis
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Giardiasis
- Malaria
- Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP)
- Q-fever [24 hours]
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever
- Trichinosis
- Viral Diseases
- Encephalitis, viral or aseptic
- Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome [24 hours]
- Hepatitis A [24 hours]
- Hepatitis B [24 hours]
- Hepatitis C
- HIV/AIDS: positive tests (HIV antibody, HIV antigen & other HIV isolations, CD4 count < 200 cells/mm3 blood or ≤ 14%)
- HTLV (human T-lymphotrophic virus)
- Measles (rubeola) [24 hours]
- Meningitis, viral or aseptic
- Mumps
- Myocarditis, viral
- Poliomyelitis [24 hours]
- Rabies: human [immediately], animal [24 hours]
- Rabies post-exposure prophylaxis
- Rubella, including congenital rubella syndrome [24 hours]
- SARS [24 hours]
- Smallpox [immediately]
- West Nile Virus infections
Communicable Disease Resources
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Traveler’s Health (CDC)
- Diseases and Conditions Information (CDC)
- National Institutes for Health (NIH)
- World Health Organization (WHO)
* HIPAA Information
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule recognizes the legitimate need for public health authorities and others responsible for ensuring public health and safety to have access to protected health information to carry out their public health mission. The Privacy Rule permits covered entities (licensed medical providers, nurses, hospitals, laboratories, etc.) to disclose protected health information, without authorization to public health authorities that are legally authorized to receive such reports for the purpose of preventing or controlling disease, injury, or disability. See 45 CFR 164.512(b)(1)(i).