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Reportable Diseases and Conditions in Kentucky

The mission of the LCDHD Epidemiological Team (Epi Team) is to prevent and control the spread of disease.

To report a disease on this list, please fax the required form (refer to bottom of page) to 606-229-7151 or call 800-928-4416 ext 1500.

902 KAR 2:020: Amended Table of Reportable Diseases and Conditions in Kentucky

Obligation to Report—902 KAR 2:020 requires health professionals to report the following diseases to the local health department or district serving the jurisdiction in which the patient resides or to the Kentucky Department for Public Health (KDPH).

REPORT IMMEDIATELY BY TELEPHONE to the Kentucky Department for Public Health or local health department:

A suspected incidence of bioterrorism caused by a biological agent (e.g. smallpox)
An unexpected pattern of cases, or deaths, which may indicate an outbreak, epidemic, or a newly-recognized infectious agent or emerging pathogen which may pose danger to the health of the public.

Kentucky Department for Public Health in Frankfort

Telephone: 502-564-3418 or 1-888-9REPORT (973-7678)
Secure FAX: 502-696-3803

Lake Cumberland District Health Department

Telephone: 1-800-928-4416 ext 2640 or 1-800-295-8253 (after hours, weekends, holidays)

This list of Kentucky’s Notifiable Diseases and Conditions contains the names of the disease or condition, the CDC recommended test for public health case classification, and the timeframe in which reporting is required to occur.

*NOTE: The CDC Recommended Tests listed are for public health case classification.

Disease or Condition (click on title for more disease information, causes, prevention measures, etc.)	Organism	CDC Recommended Testing (click for complete CDC testing recommendations and case definition)	Report Within
Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) – KDPH Quicksheet		MRI	5 days
Alpha-gal Syndrome (AGS)
Anaplasmosis	Anaplasma phagocytophilum	Culture, PCR, IFA	5 days
Anthrax	Bacillus anthracis	Culture, PCR, IHC	24 hours
Arboviral Diseases, neuroinvasive and non-neuroinvasive	Includes: California group Eastern Equine Encephalitis St. Louis Encephalitis Western Equine Encephalitis West Nile Viruses Chikungunya Virus Powassan Virus Zika Virus	Isolation, PCR	24 hours
Babesiosis	Babesia spp.	Culture, PCR, NAAT	5 days
Botulism	Clostridium botulinum	Isolation and identification	24 hours
Brucellosis	Brucella spp.	Culture and identification, PCR	24 hours
Campylobacteriosis	Campylobacter spp.	Isolation, PCR	24 hours
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning			1 day
Chancroid	Haemophilus ducreyi		5 days
Chlamydia trachomatis infection			5 days
Cholera	Vibrio cholera O1/O139	Culture	24 hours
Coccidioidomycosis	Coccidioides spp.	Culture, EIA, Serology	5 days
Congenital syphilis	Treponema pallidum		1 day
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease	Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) and other prion diseases	WB confirmed protease-resistant PrP	5 days
Cronobacter spp, invasive disease in an infant <12 months of age	Cronobacter		24 hours
Cryptosporidiosis	Cryptosporidium spp.	PCR, EIA, DFA, Microscopy	24 hours
Cyclosporiasis	Cyclospora cayetanensis	PCR, Microscopy	5 days
Dengue Virus Infections	Dengue virus	Culture, PCR, IHC, or IFA	1 day
Diphtheria – KDPH Quicksheet	Corynebacterium diphtheriae	Isolation and identification	24 hours
E. coli 0157:H7, Shiga toxin positive (STEC)	Shiga-toxin producing bacteria	Isolation and identification	24 hours
Ehrlichiosis	Ehrlichia chaffeensis	Culture, PCR, IFA	5 days
Foodborne Disease Outbreak			1 day
Giardiasis	Giardia duodenalis	EIA, DFA, Microscopy	5 days
Gonorrhea	Neisseria gonorrhoeae		5 days
Granuloma inguinale	Calymmatobacterium granulomatis		5 days
Haemophilus Influenza, Invasive Disease – KDPH Quicksheet	Haemophilus Influenza	Isolation and identification, PCR	24 hours
Hansen’s Disease	Mycobacterium leprae	Microscopy	24 hours
Hantavirus Infection	Hantaviruses	PCR, ELISA, IFA, Western blot	24 hours
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS)			1 day
Hemolytic Uremia Syndrome (HUS), post-diarrheal		Anemia with microangiopathic changes on peripheral blood smear AND renal injury	24 hours
Hepatitis A	Hepatitis A virus	IgM, NAAT	24 hours
Hepatitis B, acute	Hepatitis B virus	HBsAg AND IgM antibody	1 day
Hepatitis B, perinatal infection	Hepatitis B virus	HBsAg, HBeAg, HBV DNA	1 day
Hepatitis C, acute	Hepatitis C virus	HCV antibody, HCV RNA	5 days
Hepatitis C, perinatal infection	Hepatitis C virus	HCV RNA, HCV genotype, HCV antigen	5 days
Histoplasmosis	Histoplasma capsulatum var. farciminosum	Culture, Serology, PCR	5 days
HIV Infection or AIDS diagnosis			5 days
Influenza-associated mortality			1 day
Invasive Pneumococcal Disease (IPD) – KDPH Quicksheet	Streptococcus pneumoniae	Isolation	1 day
Lead poisoning		Blood lead concentration of ≥5 µg/dL (0.24 µmol/L)	5 days
Legionellosis	Legionella pneumophila	Culture, IFA, DFA	1 day
Leptospirosis	Leptospira interrogans	Isolation, PCR	1 day
Listeriosis	Listeria monocytogenes	Isolation	24 hours
Lymphogranuloma venereum	Chlamydia trachomatis		5 days
Lyme Disease	Borrelia burgdorferi	Isolation, NAAT	5 days
Norovirus outbreak			1 day
Novel influenza A virus infections			24 hours
Malaria	Plasmodium spp.	RDT	5 days
Measles – KDPH Quicksheet	Rubeola	Isolation, PCR, IgM	24 hours
Melioidosis	Burkholderia pseudomallei	Isolation, DNA, IHA	24 hours
Meningococcal Disease – KDPH Quicksheet	Neisseria meningitidis	Culture, PCR	24 hours
Mumps – KDPH Quicksheet	Mumps virus	Culture, PCR	1 day
Pertussis – KDPH Quicksheet	Bordetella pertussis	Isolation, PCR	24 hours
Pesticide-related illness, acute			1 day
Plague	Yersinia pestis	Isolation, Serology	24 hours
Poliomyelitis			24 hours
Poliovirus infection – KDPH Quicksheet	Poliovirus	Culture, PCR	1 day
Psittacosis	Chlamydophila psittaci	Isolation, PCR, CF, MIF, Serology	24 hours
Q Fever	Coxiella burnetii	Culture, PCR, IHC, Serology	24 hours
Rabies, animal	Lyssavirus	Isolation, DFA, dRIT, IHC, RR-PCR	24 hours
Rabies, human	Lyssavirus	Isolation, DFA, RNA	24 hours
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever	Rickettsia spp.	Isolation, PCR, IHC, IFA	5 days
Rubella – KDPH Quicksheet	Rubella virus	Isolation, PCR, Serology	24 hours
Rubella, congenital syndrome – KDPH Quicksheet			1 day
Salmonellosis, excluding paratyphoid and typhoid	Salmonella spp.	Isolation, CIDT	24 hours
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-associated Coronavirus (COVID-19)	SARS-CoV	Isolation, PCR, EIA	24 hours
Shiga toxin-producing E.coli (STEC)	Escherichia coli	Isolation	1 day
Shigellosis	Shigella spp.	Isolation, PCR	24 hours
Silicosis	Crystalline silica	Chest radiograph, Lung histopathology	3 months
Smallpox	Variola Virus	CDC Only	24 hours
Streptococcal disease, invasive Group A	Streptococcus pyogenes	Isolation	1 day
Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome (STSS)	Streptococcus pyogenes	Isolation and Clinical diagnosis	1 day
Streptococcus pneumoniae, invasive disease	Streptococcus pneumoniae		1 day
Syphilis – other than primary, secondary, early latent, or congential	Treponema pallidum		5 days
Syphilis – primary, secondary, or early latent	Treponema pallidum		1 day
Tetanus – KDPH Quicksheet	Clostridium tetani	Clinical diagnosis	24 hours
Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS), other than Streptococcal	Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes	Culture and Clinical diagnosis	1 day
Toxoplasmosis	Toxoplasma gondii	PCR, Serology	5 days
Trichinellosis	Trichinella spp.	Serology	5 days
Tuberculosis	Trichinella spp.	Isolation, NAAT	1 day
Tularemia	Francisella tularensis	Isolation, PCR, ELISA, Serology	24 hours
Typhoid/Paratyphoid Fever	Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi	Isolation	24 hours
Varicella/Chickenpox Vibrio – KDPH Quicksheet (Shingles), KDPH Quicksheet (Varicella)	Varicella virus	Isolation, PCR, DFA, Serology	1 day
Vibrio	Vibrionaceae spp., other than Vibrio cholerae O1 or O139	Isolation	24 hours
Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF)	Includes: Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, Ebola virus, Lassa virus, Lujo virus, Marburg virus, New World arenaviruses including: Guanarito virus, Junin virus, Machupo virus, and Sabia virus	Isolation, PCR, ELISA IHC and Clinical diagnosis	24 hours
Waterborne disease outbreak			1 day
Yellow Fever	Yellow Fever virus	Isolation, PCR, Serology	24 hours

Resources (click to view)

Kentucky Administrative Regulations—902 KAR 2:020. Reportable disease surveillance

Center for Disease Control and Prevention—Diseases and Conditions

Kentucky Department for Public Health—Division of Epidemiologist and Health Planning

School Health Disease Defender Toolkit

Respiratory Illness Resources (click to view):

Respiratory Virus Guidance

Interim Guidance for Managing Healthcare Personnel with SARS-CoV-2 Infection or Exposure to SARS-CoV-2

Viral Respiratory Pathogens Toolkit for Nursing Homes

EPID Forms (Click to Download)

EPID 200 – Kentucky Reportable Disease Form

EPID 250 – Kentucky Reportable MDRO Form

EPID 394 – Kentucky Reportable Disease Form, Hepatitis Infection in Pregnant Women or Child

Abbreviations Key
CDIT	Culture-independent diagnostic test
IHC	Immunohistochemistry
CF	Complement fixation
MIF	Microimmunofluorescence
DFA	Direct Fluorescent antibody
NAAT	Nucleic acid amplification test
EIA	Enzyme immunoassay
PCR	Polymerase chain reaction
ELISA	Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay
RDT	Rapid diagnosis test
IFA	Immunofluorescence assay
WB	Western Blot

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To report a disease on this list, please fax the required form (refer to bottom of page) to 606-229-7151 or call 800-928-4416 ext 1500.

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