Infectious Disease Information

These are Class A Infectious Diseases:

Anthrax

Botulism

Diphtheria

Free-living amoeba infection

Influenza A – novel virus infection

Measles

Meningococcal disease

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)

Plague

Rabies, human

Rubella (not congenital)

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) 

Smallpox

Tularemia, inhalation

Viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF), including Ebola virus disease, Lassa fever, Marburg  hemorrhagic fever, and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever

Any unexpected pattern of cases, deaths or increased incidence of any other disease of major  public health concern, because of the severity of disease or potential for epidemic spread,  which may indicate a newly recognized infectious agent, outbreak, epidemic, related public  health hazard or act of bioterrorism.  

These are Class B Infectious Diseases:

Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM)

Anaplasmosis

Arboviral neuroinvasive and non-neuroinvasive disease, such as:

• Chikungunya virus infection
• Eastern equine encephalitis virus disease
• Lacrosse virus disease (other California serogroup virus disease)
• Powassan virus disease
• St. Louis encephalitis virus disease
• West Nile virus infection
• Western Equine encephalitis virus disease
• Yellow fever
• Zika virus infection
• Other arthropod-borne diseases

Babesiosis

Brucellosis

Campylobacteriosis

Candida auris

Carbapenemase-Producing Organisms (CPO)

Chancroid

Chlamydia trachomatis infections

Cholera

Coccidioidomycosis

Covid-19-associated hospitalization

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)

Cronobacter, invasive infection in infants less than 12 months of age

Cryptosporidiosis

Cyclosporiasis

Dengue

E. coli 0157:H7 and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC)

Ehrlichiosis

Giardiasis

Gonorrhea (Neisseria gonorrhoeae)

Haemophilus influenzae (invasive disease)

Hantavirus

Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS)

Hepatitis A

Hepatitis B (non-perinatal)

Hepatitis B (perinatal)

Hepatitis C

Hepatitis C (perinatal)

Hepatitis D (delta hepatitis)

Hepatitis E

Influenza-associated hospitalization

Influenza-associated pediatric mortality

Legionellosis (Legionnairesʼ disease)

Leprosy (Hansen disease)

Leptospirosis

Listeriosis

Lyme disease

Malaria

Meningitis: Bacterial

Mpox

Mumps

Pertussis

Poliomyelitis

Psittacosis

Q fever

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)-associated hospitalization 

Rubella (congenital)

Salmonella Paratyphi infection 

Salmonella Typhi infection (typhoid fever)

Salmonellosis

Shigellosis

Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis, including Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF)

Staphylococcus aureus, Vancomycin Intermediate/Resistant (VISA/VRSA )

Streptococcal disease, group A, invasive

Streptococcal disease, group B, in newborn

Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS)

Streptococcus pneumoniae, Invasive Disease

Syphilis

Tetanus

Toxic shock syndrome (TSS)

Trichinellosis

Tuberculosis (TB) and Latent TB (LTBI) in a child 2 years of age or younger

Tularemia, non-inhalation

Varicella

Vibriosis

Yersiniosis

For Class C infectious diseases, outbreaks, unusual incidents, or epidemics must be reported by the end of the next business day. 

Examples might be histoplasmosis,

pediculosis, scabies, or staphylococcal infections.

Outbreaks might be among these:

Community

Food-borne

Healthcare-associated

Institutional

Waterborne

Zoonotic

Class C Infectious Diseases are reported to the local Public Health

jurisdiction of residence of the patient.  To report a Class C

Infectious Disease to the Ashtabula County Health Department:

Call 440-576-6010, option 2, or Fax Ohio Confidential Reportable Form to 440-576-3378, or scan and email Ohio Confidential Reportable Form to

lholden@ashtabulacountyhealth.com

NOTE:

Cases of AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome), AIDS-related conditions, HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection, perinatal exposure to HIV, all CD4 T-lymphocyte counts, and all tests used to diagnose HIV must be reported on forms and in a manner prescribed by the Director, Ohio Department of Health