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  infection	Hepatitis B, D, E, and   unspec. (acute)	Spotted fever grouop  rickettsioses
Creutzfeld-Jakob   disease (CJD)	Hepatitis C	Streptococcal disease       group A, group B       or pneumococcal          invasive
Cryptosporidiosis	Legionellosis	Syphilis
Cylcosporiasis
Dengue	Listeriosis	Tetanus
Drowning/                Near drowning	Lyme disease	Trichinosis
Elevated blood lead	Malaria	Typhus
Ehrlichiosis	Meningitis (specify etiology)	Yersiniosis