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