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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
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