View a list of reportable diseases in Pennsylvania.
(PA Code, Title 28, Chapter 27 | Updates 1 & 2 requiring electronic reporting.)
- AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) $
- Amebiasis
- Animal bite #
- Anthrax #
- An unusual cluster of isolates
- Arboviruses (includes Colorado tick fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, dengue, Eastern equine encephalitis, St. Louis encephalitis, West Nile virus infection, Yellow fever, et al.) #
- Botulism (all forms) #
- Brucellosis
- Campylobacteriosis
- Cancer ^
- CD4 T-lymphocyte test result with a count <200 cells/microliter, or a CD4 T-lymphocyte % of <14% of total lymphocytes $
- Chancroid
- Chickenpox (Varicella)
- Chlamydia trachomatis infections
- Cholera #
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) (<5y/old)
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Diphtheria #
- Encephalitis (all types)
- Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (shiga toxin-producing E. coli or STEC) # *
- Food poisoning outbreak #
- Galactosemia (<5y/old)
- Giardiasis
- Gonococcal infections
- Granuloma inguinale
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- Haemophilus influenzae invasive disease # *
- Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome #
- Hemorrhagic fever #
- Hepatitis, viral, acute and chronic cases
- Histoplasmosis
- HIV infection $
- Influenza (laboratory-confirmed only)
- Lead poisoning #
- Legionellosis #
- Leprosy (Hansen's Disease)
- Leptospirosis
- Listeriosis
- Lyme disease
- Lymphogranuloma venereum
- Malaria
- Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) (<5y/old)
- Measles (Rubeola) #
- Meningitis (all types--not limited to invasive Haemophilus influenzae or Neisseria meningitidis)
- Meningococcal invasive disease # *
- Mumps
- Perinatal exposure of a newborn to HIV
- Pertussis (whooping cough)
- Phenylketonuria (PKU) (<5y/old)
- Plague #
- Poliomyelitis #
- Primary congenital hypothyroidism (<5y/old)
- Psittacosis (ornithosis)
- Rabies #
- Respiratory syncytial virus
- Rickettsial diseases/infections (includes Anaplasmosis, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Q fever, rickettsialpox, typhus, Ehrlichiosis)
- Rubella (German measles) and congenital rubella syndrome
- Salmonellosis *
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) #
- Shigellosis *
- Sickle cell hemoglobinopathies (<5y/old)
- Smallpox #
- Staphylococcal aureus, Vancomycin Resistant (VRSA) or Intermediate (VISA) invasive disease
- Streptococcal invasive disease (Group A)
- Streptococcus pneumoniae, drug resistant invasive disease
- Syphilis (all stages)
- Tetanus
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Toxoplasmosis
- Trichinosis
- Tuberculosis, suspected or confirmed active disease (all sites) including the results of drug susceptibility testing
- Tularemia
- Typhoid fever #
For healthcare practitioners and healthcare facilities, all diseases are reportable within 5 work-days, unless otherwise noted.
For clinical laboratories, all diseases are reportable by next work-day, unless otherwise noted.
$ Clinical laboratories must report within 5 days of obtaining the test result.
* In addition to reporting, clinical laboratories must also submit isolates to the state Laboratory within 5 work-days of isolation.
^ Hospitals, clinical laboratories, and healthcare facilities must report within 180 days.
BLUE not currently reportable via PA-NEDSS.
Please note that certain broad categories such as #22 (Food Poisoning Outbreak) should be construed to mean all such illnesses, even if the etiology is either not otherwise listed here, or a specific etiology cannot be determined. Further, all disease outbreaks and/or unusual occurrences of disease are reportable within the Commonwealth. Finally, note that local jurisdictions may require reports of additional conditions not listed here within their jurisdictions.