Disease Reporting and Investigation

Reportable Disease Annual Summary

Kentucky State Law requires that certain diseases and/or conditions are reported to local health departments. Below you can find an annual summary of diseases reported to the Green River District Health Department. This data helps local public health personnel respond to illness within the community and attempt to prevent further spread of such illnesses. The accuracy of this data depends on providers accurately reporting these disease diagnosis in a timely manner.

The diseases included in the counts are based on specific criteria that is defined by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologist (CSTE) and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Diseases must meet defined criteria to be included in the official counts.

KAR Reportable Disease Surveillance Revisions
Notification of the following diseases shall be made within twenty-four (24) hours:

• Anthrax;
• Botulism;
• Brucellosis (multiple cases, temporally or spatially clustered);
• Diphtheria;
• Hepatitis A, acute;
• Measles;
• Meningococcal infections;
• Novel influenza A virus infections;
• Plague;
• Poliomyelitis;
• Rabies, animal;
• Rabies, human;
• Rubella;
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-associated Coronavirus (SARS-CoV);
• Smallpox;
• Tularemia;
• Yellow fever; and
• Viral hemorrhagic fevers due to:
  • Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever virus;
  • Ebola virus;
  • Lassa virus;
  • Lujo virus;
  • Marburg virus; or
  • New world arenaviruses including:
    • Guanarito virus;
    • Junin virus,
    • Machupo virus; and
    • Sabia virus.

Notification of the following diseases shall be made within one (1) business day:

• Arboviral diseases, neuroinvasive and non-neuroinvasive, including:
  • California serogroup virus diseases, including diseases caused by:
    • California encephalitis virus;
    • Jamestown Canyon virus;
    • Keystone virus;
    • La Crosse virus;
    • Snowshoe hare virus; and
    • Trivittatus viruses;
  • Chikungunya virus disease;
  • Eastern equine encephalitis virus disease;
  • Powassan virus disease;
  • St. Louis encephalitis virus disease;
  • Venezuelan equine encephalitis disease;
  • West Nile virus disease; and
  • Western equine encephalitis virus disease;
• Brucellosis (cases not temporally or spatially clustered);
• Campylobacteriosis;
• Cholera;
• Cryptosporidiosis;
• Dengue virus infections;
• Escherichia coli O157:H7;
• Foodborne disease outbreak;
• Haemophilus influenzae invasive disease;
• Hansen’s disease (leprosy);
• Hantavirus infections;
• Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), post-diarrheal;
• Hepatitis B, acute;
• Hepatitis B infection in a pregnant woman;
• Hepatitis B infection in an infant or a child aged five years or less;
• Newborns born to Hepatitis B positive mothers at the time of delivery;
• Influenza-associated mortality in a pregnant woman;
• Influenza-associated pediatric mortality;
• Listeriosis;
• Mumps;
• Norovirus outbreak;
• Pertussis;
• Pesticide-related illness, acute;
• Psittacosis;
• Q fever;
• Rabies post exposure prophylaxis;
• Rubella, congenital syndrome;
• Salmonellosis;
• Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC);
• Shigellosis;
• Streptococcal toxic-shock syndrome;
• Streptococcus pneumoniae, invasive disease;
• Tetanus;
• Toxic-shock syndrome (other than Streptococcal);
• Tuberculosis;
• Typhoid fever;
• Varicella-associated mortality;
• Vibriosis
• Waterborne disease outbreak.

Notification of the following diseases shall be made within five (5) business days:

• Babesiosis;
• Coccidioidomycosis;
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease;
• Ehrlichiosis/Anaplasmosis;
• Hepatitis C, acute;
• Hepatitis C infection in a pregnant woman;
• Hepatitis C infection in an infant or a child aged five years or less;
• Newborns born to Hepatitis C positive mothers at the time of delivery;
• Histoplasmosis;
• Lead poisoning;
• Legionellosis;
• Lyme Disease;
• Malaria;
• Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis (Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever);
• Toxoplasmosis; and
• Trichinellosis (Trichinosis)

NOTE: Newly Reportable Conditions/Situations Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) Outbreaks Newly Recognized Infectious Agents Asbestosis, Goal Works Pneumoconiosis, Silicosis