How to report notifiable conditions
Immediately notifiable conditions
- Call (253) 649-1412 to speak with a nurse or disease investigator.
Other notifiable conditions
- Call (253) 649-1413 and leave a message, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Leave the patient’s name, date of birth, address, and disease.
- Or fax a notifiable condition report form to (253) 649-1389.
Disease-specific forms
- Animal bite reporting instructions.
- STD report form.
- HIV/AIDS adult case report form.
- Optional positive syphilis or HIV test supplemental patient info form.
- Positive tuberculosis screening report form.
- Perinatal hepatitis C fax form.
- Inter-facility infection prevention and safety form.
- Blood lead level report form.
- Carbon monoxide poisoning report form.
- Work-related asthma report form.
Outbreak reporting for healthcare facilities
All healthcare facilities should report outbreaks:
- Acute care hospitals.
- Long-term care facilities.
- Supported living facilities.
- Outpatient healthcare service facilities.
Report a suspected or confirmed outbreak of:
- COVID-19.
- Influenza.
- Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
- Stomach illness.
- Undiagnosed respiratory illness.
Pierce County healthcare facilities have several ways to report outbreaks:
- Call us at (253) 649-1412.
- Or fax a notifiable condition report form to (253) 649-1389.
- Or use the facility outbreak notification tool (FONT) for healthcare settings (preferred).
Include in your report:
- Facility name.
- Dates of first and most recent illness onset.
- Numbers of cases: number of staff and number of patients/residents.
- Whether or not you need support.
Notes:
- If you use point-of-care (POC) testing, include a line list of positive cases that includes name, date of birth, and date of test.
- If you use a commercial lab for testing, don’t include a line list.
- If you report these results to us, you don’t need to submit them to Washington State Department of Health.
Questions?
Call us at (253) 649-1412.
Notifiable conditions
Report suspected or confirmed. Print the list.
Report a suspected institutional outbreak of any illness (e.g., gastrointestinal or flu-like symptoms in a nursing home).
| Report immediately, 24/7—call (253) 649-1412. |
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| Amebic meningitis |
| Anthrax |
| Botulism (foodborne, wound, infant) |
| Burkholderia mallei (glanders) and pseudomallei (melioidosis) |
| Cholera |
| Coronavirus infection (SARS, MERS, COVID-19) |
| Diphtheria |
| Domoic acid poisoning (amnesic shellfish poisoning) |
| Haemophilus influenzae (invasive disease) (children under 5 years old) |
| Influenza (novel or unsubtypable strain) |
| Measles (rubeola) (acute) |
| Meningococcal disease (invasive) |
| Mpox |
| Outbreak (suspected foodborne or waterborne origin) |
| Paralytic shellfish poisoning |
| Pesticide poisoning (hospitalized, fatal, cluster)—Call (800) 222-1222. |
| Plague |
| Poliomyelitis |
| Rabies (confirmed human or animal) (suspected human exposure) |
| Rubella (including congenital rubella syndrome) (acute) |
| Shiga toxin-producing E. coli infections (including but not limited to E. coli O157:H7) |
| Smallpox |
| Tularemia |
| Vaccinia transmission |
| Viral hemorrhagic fever |
| Yellow fever |
| Report within 24 hours. |
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| Baylisascariasis |
| Brucellosis |
| Candia auris infection or colonization |
| Hantaviral infection |
| Hepatitis A (acute) |
| Hepatitis B (acute) |
| Hepatitis C (acute) |
| Hepatitis C (perinatal) |
| Hepatitis D (acute or chronic) |
| Hepatitis E (acute) |
| Legionellosis |
| Leptospirosis |
| Listeriosis |
| Mumps (acute) |
| Pertussis |
| Psittacosis |
| Q fever |
| Salmonellosis |
| Shigellosis |
| Tuberculosis (confirmed or highly suspicious) |
| Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (not vancomycin-intermediate) |
| Vibriosis |
| Yersiniosis |
| Unexplained critical illness or death |
| Report within 3 workdays. |
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| Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) (including people previously reported with HIV) |
| Anaplasmosis |
| Arboviral disease (acute) (including, but not limited to, chikungunya, dengue, eastern and western equine encephalitis, Japanese encephalitis, LaCrosse encephalitis, Powassan virus, St. Louis encephalitis, West Nile virus, Zika virus) |
| Babesiosis |
| Campylobacteriosis |
| Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae infections (limited to Klebsiella species, E. coli, Enterobacter species) |
| Chagas disease |
| Chancroid |
| Chlamydia trachomatis infection |
| Coccidioidomycosis |
| Cryptococcus gattii or undifferentiated Cryptococcus species (e.g., Cryptococcus not identified as C. neoformans) |
| Cryptosporidiosis |
| Cyclosporiasis |
| Cysticercosis |
| Echinococcosis |
| Ehrlichiosis |
| Giardiasis |
| Gonorrhea |
| Granuloma inguinale |
| Hepatitis B surface antigen-positive pregnant woman |
| Hepatitis B (chronic) (initial diagnosis and previously unreported cases) |
| Hepatitis B (perinatal) (initial diagnosis) |
| Hepatitis C (chronic) |
| Herpes simplex (neonatal, genital) (initial infection) |
| Histoplasmosis |
| HIV infection |
| Human prion disease |
| Immunization reactions (severe, adverse) |
| Influenza-associated death (lab-confirmed) |
| Lyme disease |
| Lymphogranuloma venereum |
| Malaria |
| Pesticide poisoning (non-hospitalized, non-fatal, non-cluster)—Call (800) 222-1222. |
| Relapsing fever (borreliosis) |
| Rickettsia infection |
| Syphilis (including congenital) |
| Taeniasis |
| Tetanus |
| Tick paralysis |
| Trichinosis |
| Typhus |
| Varicella-associated death |
| Report within 7 workdays. |
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| Tuberculosis infection (latent) (positive tuberculosis skin test or interferon-gamma release assay, e.g., QuantiFERON®-TB Gold) |
| Report monthly. |
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| Asthma (occupational) (suspected or confirmed)—Call (888) 66-SHARP. |
| Birth defects (autism spectrum disorders, cerebral palsy, alcohol-related)—Call (360) 236-3533. |
| Facilities only: Birth defects: • Abdominal wall defects, including gastroschisis and omphalocele. • Down syndrome. • Hypospadias. • Limb reductions. • Neural tube defects, including anencephaly and spina bifida. • Oral clefts, including cleft lip with or without cleft palate. Gunshot wounds (non-fatal). |