Diseases and Conditions Reportable in North Carolina
Reporting of suspected or confirmed communicable
diseases is mandated under North Carolina
Administrative Code 10A NCAC 41A.0101 Reportable
Diseases and Conditions: The following named diseases
and conditions are declared to be dangerous to the
public’s health and are hereby made reportable within
the time period specified after the disease or condition
is reasonable suspected to exist.
The primary responsibility for reporting rests with the physician
as mandated under North Carolina General Statute §130A-135
Physicians to Report: A physician licensed to practice
medicine who has reason to suspect that a person about
whom the physician has been consulted professionally has a
communicable disease or communicable condition declared
by the Commission to be reported shall report information
required by the Commission to the local health director of the
county or district in which the physician consulted.
Diseases in BOLD ITALICS should be reported immediately to the local health department (see below).
Reportable
Disease/Condition
within
24
hours
Disease Code
A-G
AIDS
 Anthrax
 Botulism, foodborne
 Botulism, intestinal (infant)
 Botulism, wound
Campylobacter infection
Chancroid
Cholera
Cryptosporidiosis
Cyclosporiasis
Diphtheria
E. coli infection, shiga toxin-producing
Foodborne disease: Clostridium perfringens
Foodborne: staphylococcal
Foodborne poisoning: ciguatera
Foodborne poisoning: mushroom
Foodborne poisoning: scombroid fish
Gonorrhea
Granuloma inguinale
H-N
Haemophilus influenzae, invasive disease
Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS)
 Hemorrhagic fever virus infection
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B, acute
HIV
Influenza pediatric death (<18 years)
Influenza adult death (>18 years)
Listeriosis
Measles (rubeola)
Meningococcal disease, invasive
Monkeypox
 Novel influenza virus infection
O-U
Ophthalmia neonatorum
Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
 Plague
Poliomyelitis, paralytic
Rabies, human
Rubella
Salmonellosis
S. aureus with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin
SARS (coronavirus infection)
Shigellosis
 Smallpox
Syphilis, all stages
Syphilis, congenital
Tuberculosis
 Tularemia
Typhoid Fever, acute
Typhus, louseborne
V-Z
Vaccinia
Vibrio infection, other than cholera & vulnificus
Vibrio vulnificus
950
3
10
110
111
50
100
6
56
63
8
53
11
3
130
131
132
300
500
23
59
68
14
15
900
73
76
64
22
27
72
75
345
47
29
30
33
36
38
74
71
39
69
700
790
TB
43
44
46
70
55
54
Reportable within 7 days
Disease/Condition
Disease Code
A-G
Brucellosis……………………………………………………………….……………………......... 5
Chlamydia—laboratory confirmed……………………………………………………. 200
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease…………………………………………………………………… 66
Dengue………………………………………………………………………………………………… 7
Ehrlichiosis, HGA……………………………………………………………………………… 571
Ehrlichiosis, HME……………………………..................................................... 572
Ehrlichiosis, unspecified………………………………………………………………….. 573
Encephalitis arboviral, WNV……………………………………………………………….. 95
Encephalitis arboviral, LAC…………………………………..….………………………… 96
Encephalitis arboviral, EEE…………………………………………………………………. 97
Encephalitis arboviral, other……………………………………………………………..… 98
H-N
Hantavirus infection…………….............………………………………………………….. 67
Hepatitis B, carriage …………………………………………………………………………… 115
Hepatitis B, perinatally acquired............................................................ 116
Hepatitis C, acute.......................................................................................60
Legionellosis...............................................................................................18
Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease)........................................................................19
Leptospirosis..............................................................................................20
Lyme disease..............................................................................................51
Lymphogranuloma venereum..................................................................600
Malaria.......................................................................................................21
Meningitis, pneumococcal.........................................................................25
Mumps.......................................................................................................28
Non-gonococcal urethritis........................................................................400
O-Z
PID ........................................................................................................ 490
Psittacosis................................................................................................. 31
Q fever...................................................................................................... 32
Rocky Mountain spotted fever................................................................. 35
Rubella, congenital syndrome................................................................. 37
Streptococcal infection, Group A, invasive............................................ . 61
Tetanus..................................................................................................... 40
Toxic shock syndrome, non-streptococcal............................................. …41
Toxic shock syndrome, streptococcal....................................................... 65
Trichinosis................................................................................................. 42
Typhoid, carriage (Salmonella typhi)...................................................... 144
Yellow fever……………………………………………………………………………………….. 48
Disease reports can be made to any of the following:
Belinda Worsham
Beth Quinn
Freda Grant
Taleba Parris
Penny Moore
Shawn Wilson
Brian Lackey
704.336.5490
704.336.5398
704.336.6436
704.353.5076
704.353.1270
704.432.1975
704.336.5498
Revised 01/16/2014