Diseases of public health significance must be reported to the Medical Officer of Health immediately or by the next working day. Reporting is required in accordance with Ontario Regulation 135/18 and amendments under the Health Protection and Promotion Act.
Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
After hours and weekends
- To report a communicable disease, complete the communicable disease notification form (PDF). Fax or email the form to 705.677.9618 or [email protected].
- To report a case of syphilis, complete the syphilis reporting form (PDF). Fax to 705.677.9611.
- To report all active TB disease and LTBI, complete the Positive Tuberculin Skin Test (TST) or QuantiFERON®-TB Gold Health Care Provider Report form (PDF). Fax or email the form to 705.677.9618 or [email protected].
- To report an animal-to-human exposure or a suspected or confirmed case of human rabies, call 705.522.9200, (toll-free 1.866.522.9200).
- Outside of regular business hours, call 705.688.4366 and request to have the on-call public health inspector contact you.
- IMPORTANT: you must also fill out and fax the Animal Incident Reporting Form (below) to 705.677.9607.
To report enteric, vector borne, zoonotic, or waterborne disease:
List of diseases of public health significance
Download: Diseases of Public Health Significance (PDF)The following diseases must be reported immediately to the Medical Officer of Health in accordance with Ontario Regulations 135/18 and amendments under the Health Protection and Promotion Act:
- Anthrax
- Botulism
- Brucellosis
- Candida auris
- Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) outbreaks
- Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) outbreaks and outbreak-associated cases within hospitals, preliminary notification
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, all types
- Cyclosporiasis
- Diphtheria
- Diseases caused by a novel coronavirus, including Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
- Food poisoning, all causes
- Gastroenteritis, institutional outbreaks
- Group A Streptococcal disease, invasive
- Haemophilus influenzae disease, all types, invasive
- Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS)
- Hemorrhagic fevers, including:
- Ebola virus disease
- Marburg virus disease
- Lassa fever
- Other viral causes
- Hepatitis A, viral
- Influenza, laboratory confirmed cases of novel (not seasonal)
- Legionellosis
- Listeriosis
- Measles
- Meningitis, acute:
- Bacterial
- Viral
- Other
- Meningococcal disease, invasive
- Mumps
- Novel coronavirus
- Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP)
- Pertussis (Whooping cough)
- Plague
- Poliomyelitis, acute
- Q fever
- Rabies
- Respiratory infection outbreaks in institutions and public hospitals
- Rubella
- Rubella, congenital syndrome
- Salmonellosis
- Shigellosis
- Smallpox and other orthopoxviruses, including monkeypox (now referred to as mpox)
- Tetanus
- Tuberculosis (all sites)
- Tularemia
- Verotoxin-producing E.coli infection indicator conditions including hemolytic uremic syndrome
- West Nile Virus illness:
- Neurological Syndromes
- Non-Neurologic Syndromes
- Asymptomatic Infection
- Yersiniosis
The following diseases must be reported by the next working day to the Medical Officer of Health in accordance with Ontario Regulations 135/18 and amendments under the Health Protection and Promotion Act:
- *Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
- Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP)
- Adverse Event Following Immunization (AEFIs)
- Amebiasis
- Anaplasmosis
- Babesiosis
- Blastomycosis
- Campylobacter enteritis
- Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) colonizations and infections (cases)
- Chancroid
- Chickenpox (Varicella)
- Chlamydia trachomatis infections
- Cholera
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Echinococcus multilocularis infection
- Encephalitis, including:
- Primary, viral
- Post-infectious
- Vaccine-related
- Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
- Unspecified
- Giardiasis
- Gonorrhea
- Group B Streptococcal disease, neonatal
- Hepatitis, viral:
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Influenza, seasonal cases
- Leprosy
- Lyme disease
- Ophthalmia neonatorum
- Paratyphoid fever
- Powassan Virus Infection
- Pneumococcal disease, invasive
- Psittacosis/Ornithosis
- Syphilis
- Trichinosis
- Typhoid fever
*Although not on the list of reportable diseases, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection is also reportable to the Medical Officer of Health since it is the agent responsible for AIDS.