BRAZORIA COUNTY DISEASE SURVEILLANCE

REPORTABLE/NOTIFIABLE CONDITIONS

The Texas Administrative Code, Title 25 requires hospitals, health care providers, laboratories, and schools to report confirmed or suspected cases of the conditions listed below to public health authorities.  Persons employed in child care facilities, nursing homes, home health agencies, and food-handling establishments are also encouraged to report.  Furthermore, any unusual disease cluster or condition of public health concern should be reported.  Reports received by the Brazoria County Health Department will be investigated as appropriate.  Information on confirmed cases will be reported to the Texas Department of Health as required. 

WHAT TO REPORT

Please complete the front side of the Brazoria County Health Department DISEASE REPORT FORM (downloadable Word format) as completely as possible.  The minimum information should include name, birth date, sex, race/ethnicity, address, telephone number, disease/condition, onset date, health care provider, and method of diagnosis.

LISTING OF CONDITIONS REQUIRING TO BE REPORTED

REPORT IMMEDIATELY:

Anthrax  
Botulism, foodborne
Diptheria                           
Haemophilus influenzae type b infections, invasive*  
Measles
Meningococcal infections, invasive*
Pertussis
Plague  
Poliomyelitis, acute paralytic
Rabies, human
Smallpox
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
Viral hemorrhagic fevers 
Yellow fever   

*"Invasive" means the pathogen was isolated from a normally sterile site (blood, CSF, etc.)

REPORT WITHIN ONE WEEK

AIDS                                     Encephalitis (specify etiology)               Mumps
Amebiasis                          Escherichia coli, enterohemorrhagic    Pesticide poisoning
Asbestosis                         Gonorrhea                                                  Relapsing fever
Campylobacteriosis         Hansen’s disease (leprosy)                   Salmonellosis,
                                                                                                                       including typhoid fever
Chancroid                           Hantavirus infection                                 Shigellosis
Chickenpox (varicella)      Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS)      Silicosis
Chlamydia trachomatis    Hepatitis B, D, E, and                              Spotted fever grouop
      infection                                unspec. (acute)                                        rickettsioses
Creutzfeld-Jakob                Hepatitis C                                                Streptococcal disease –
      disease (CJD)                                                                                        group A, group B
                                                                                                                         or pneumococcal –
                                                                                                                         invasive
Cryptosporidiosis              Legionellosis                                            Syphilis
Cylcosporiasis                   Listeriosis                                                  Tetanus
Dengue                                Lyme disease                                           Trichinosis
Drowning/                            Malaria                                                        Typhus
      Near drowning
Elevated blood lead          Meningitis (specify etiology)                    Yersiniosis
Ehrlichiosis