Diseases
The Rush County Health Department is responsible for tracking and reporting on dozens of reportable diseases. For the latest on Covid-19, please download the linked article below.
- Acute flaccid myelitis
- Anthrax
- Anaplasmosis
- Arboviral disease, neuroinvasive and nonneuroinvasive
(including chikungunya virus, dengue virus, La - Crosse, West Nile virus, and Zika virus)
- Babesiosis
- Blood lead levels (any results)
- Botulism
- Brucellosis
- Campylobacteriosis
- Candida auris
- Carbapenem-resistant bacterial infection or
colonization - Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Chancroid
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chlamydia trachomatis infection
- Cholera
- Coccidioidomycosis
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Cyclosporiasis
- Diphtheria
- Ehrlichiosis
- Giardiasis
- Gonorrhea (include antibiotic susceptibility results,
if performed) - Haemophilus influenzae, invasive disease
- Hansen’s disease (leprosy)
- Hantavirus
- Hemolytic uremic syndrome, post-diarrheal
- Hepatitis, viral (A, B, C, D, and E, acute and chronic)
- Hepatitis B during pregnancy
- Hepatitis B in children <5 years of age (report all
positive, negative, and inconclusive lab results) - Histoplasmosis
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) (Report the
CD4+ T-lymphocyte cell counts, report viral
load of any value, and report each pregnancy of
women diagnosed with HIV) - Influenza deaths in children <18 years of age
- Leptospirosis
- Influenza, novel A virus infection
- Legionellosis
- Listeriosis
- Lyme disease
- Malaria
- Measles (rubeola)
- Meningococcal disease
- Mumps
- Pertussis (whooping cough)
- Plague (Yersinia pestis)
- Poliovirus
- Psittacosis
- Q Fever (Coxiella burnetii, acute and chronic)
- Rabies, human
- Rabies, animal
- Rubella
- Salmonellosis, including typhoid fever
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-associated
coronavirus (SARS-CoV) - Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC)
- Shigellosis
- Smallpox
- Spotted fever rickettsiosis
- Streptococcus pneumoniae, invasive disease
- Syphilis, all stages, including congenital syphilis
- Tetanus
- Toxic shock syndrome, streptococcal and other
- Transmissable spongioform encephalopathy (TSE) or
prion disease - Trichinellosis or trichinosis
- Tuberculosis, active disease
- Tuberculosis, latent infection
- Tularemia, including laboratory exposures
- Vaccinia, post vaccination infection or secondary
transmission - Vancomycin-intermediate and resistant Staphylococcus
aureus (VISA and VRSA) - Vibriosis (all cholerae and non-cholerae Vibrio
species) - Viral hemorrhagic fevers
- Yellow fever