N.J. Admin. Code § 8:57-1.5

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 21, November 4, 2024

Section 8:57-1.5 - Reportable communicable diseases

(a) Health care providers and administrators shall immediately report by telephone as set forth at 8:57-1.6 confirmed and suspected cases of the following reportable communicable diseases:

1. List of immediately reportable diseases

Anthrax (Bacillusanthracis);

Botulism (Clostridiumbotulinum);

Brucellosis (Brucellaspp.);

Diphtheria (Corynebacteriumdiphthteriae); Foodborne intoxications, including, but not limited to, ciguatera, paralytic shellfish poisoning, scombroid, or mushroom poisoning;

Haemophilusinfluenzae, invasive disease;

Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome;

Hepatitis A, acute;

Influenza, novel strains only;

Measles (Rubeola virus);

Meningococcal invasive disease (Neisseriameningitidis);

Outbreak or suspected outbreak of illness, including, but not limited to, foodborne, waterborne or nosocomial disease or a suspected act of bioterrorism;

Pertussis, (Bordetellapertussis);

Rabies (human illness);

SARS-CoV Disease (SARS);

Smallpox;

Tularemia (Francisellatularensis); and

Viral hemorrhagic fevers, including, but not limited to, Ebola, Lassa, and Marburg viruses.

(b) Health care providers and administrators shall report within 24 hours of diagnosis as set forth at 8:57-1.6 confirmed cases of the following reportable communicable diseases:

Amoebiasis (Entamoebahistolytica);

Animal bites treated for rabies;

Arboviral diseases;

Babesiosis (Babesia spp.);

Campylobacteriosis (Campylobacter spp.);

Chancroid (Haemophilusducreyi);

Chlamydial infections, sexually transmitted (Chlamydiatrachomatis);

Chlamydial conjunctivitis, neonatal (Chlamydiatrachomatis);

Cholera (Vibriocholerae);

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease;

Cryptosporidiosis (Cryptosporidium spp.);

Cyclosporiasis (Cyclospora spp.);

Diarrheal disease, either in a child who attends a day care center or in a foodhandler;

Ehrlichiosis (Ehrlichia spp.);

Escherichiacoli, shiga toxin producing strains (STEC) only;

Giardiasis (Giardialamblia);

Gonorrhea (Neisseria gonorrhoeae);

Granuloma inguinale (Klebsiella granulomatis);

Hansen's disease (Mycobacterium leprae);

Hemolytic uremic syndrome, post-diarrheal;

Hepatitis B, newly diagnosed acute, perinatal and chronic infections, and pregnant women who have tested positive for Hepatitis B surface antigen;

Hepatitis C, acute and chronic, newly diagnosed cases only;

Influenza-associated pediatric mortality;

Legionellosis (Legionella spp.);

Listeriosis (Listeria monocytogenes);

Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi);

Lymphogranuloma venereum (Chlamydia trachomatis);

Malaria (Plasmodium spp.);

Mumps;

Psittacosis (Chlamydia psittaci);

Q fever (Coxiella burnetti);

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (Rickettsia rickettsii);

Rubella, congenital syndrome;

Salmonellosis (Salmonella spp.);

Shigellosis (Shigella spp.);

Staphylococcus aureus, with intermediate- (VISA) or high-level-resistance (VRSA) to vancomycin only;

Streptococcal disease, invasive group A, (Streptococcus pyogenes group A);

Streptococcal disease, invasive group B, neonatal;

Streptococcal toxic-shock syndrome;

Streptococcus pneumoniae, invasive disease;

Syphilis, all stages (Treponema pallidum);

Syphilis, congenital;

Tetanus (Clostridium tetani);

Toxic Shock syndrome (other than Streptococcal);

Trichinellosis (Trichinella spiralis);

Tuberculosis, confirmed or suspect (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) (additional reporting requirements set forth at 8:57-5.3 );

Typhoid fever (Salmonella typhi);

Varicella (chickenpox);

Vibriosis;

Viral encephalitis;

Yellow fever (Flavivirus); and

Yersiniosis (Yersinia spp.).

(c) Health care providers and administrators shall immediately report to the Department by telephone as set forth at 8:57-1.6 any disease or health condition that may reasonably be a potential case of a public health emergency as set forth at 26:13-4.

(d) An administrator of a general hospital licensed by the Department in accordance with 26:2H-1 et seq. and as classified in the Hospital Licensing Standards at 8:43G-1.2 and 1.3(b) shall, within 30 calendar days of the end of each month, submit to the Department:

1. The number of cases of hospital-onset MRSA bloodstream infections per 1,000 patient days that have occurred in his or her general hospital, specified by hospital unit where active surveillance testing for MRSA is being performed; and

2. The percentage of eligible patients who have a MRSA surveillance test performed on admission to a hospital unit where active surveillance testing for MRSA is being performed.

i. The administrator shall submit the information set forth in (d)1 and 2 above using a web-based interface to be developed and communicated by the Department.

(e) Reporting of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and infection with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) shall be in the manner set forth at N.J.A.C. 8:57-2.

N.J. Admin. Code § 8:57-1.5

As amended, R.1983 d.67, effective 3/7/1983.
See: 14 N.J.R. 1277(a), 15 N.J.R. 338(b).
Added Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia and Toxic Shock Syndrome. Also amended Lyme Arthritis to Lyme Disease.
Amended by R.1985 d.363, effective 7/15/1985.
See: 17 N.J.R. 784(a), 17 N.J.R. 1764(a).
Added "Meningitis" to the list of reportable diseases.
Amended by R.1990 d.243, effective 6/4/1990.
See: 21 N.J.R. 3897(a), 22 N.J.R. 1766(a).
Text of 1.3, reporting of diseases by physicians, recodified to 1.4; text on reportable diseases recodified from 1.2 to 1.3; with specified diseases to be reported in writing to the Department by expanded list of professionals; exceptions for specified diseases noted; many revisions to lists in (a) and (b); and new (c) and (e) added.
Repeal and New Rule, R.2003 d.412, effective 10/20/2003.
See: 34 N.J.R. 3945(a), 35 N.J.R. 4883(b).
Section was "Diseases which are immediately reportable".
Recodified from N.J.A.C. 8:57-1.3 and amended by R.2009 d.107, effective 4/6/2009.
See: 40 N.J.R. 1962(a), 41 N.J.R. 1419(a).
Section was "Reportable diseases". Rewrote the section. Former N.J.A.C. 8:57-1.5, Content of report, recodified to N.J.A.C. 8:57-1.6.

The adopted version of this section 56 N.J.R. 213(a), effective 1/3/2024 is not yet available