Section 690

Section 690.100 Diseases and Conditions

The following are declared to be contagious, infectious, or communicable and may be dangerous to the public health. Each suspected or diagnosed case shall be reported to the local health authority, who shall subsequently report each case to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

a) Class I(a)

The following diseases shall be reported immediately (within 3 hours) upon initial clinical suspicion of the disease to the local health authority, who shall then report to the Department immediately (within 3 hours). This interval applies to primary reporters identified in Section 690.200(a)(1) who are required to report to local health authorities and to local health authorities who are required to report to the Department. The Section number associated with each of the listed diseases indicates the Section under which the diseases are reportable. Laboratory specimens of agents required to be submitted under Subpart C shall be submitted within 24 hours to the Department laboratory.

1)	Any unusual case or cluster of cases that may indicate a public health hazard	690.295

2)	Anthrax*	690.320

3)	Botulism, foodborne	690.327

4)	Brucellosis* (if suspected to be a bioterrorist event or part of an outbreak)	690.330

5)	Influenza A, Novel Virus	690.469

6)	Plague*	690.570

7)	Q-fever* (if suspected to be a bioterrorist event or part of an outbreak)	690.595

8)	Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome	690.635

9)	Smallpox	690.650

10)	Tularemia* (if suspected to be a bioterrorist event or part of an outbreak)	690.725

11)	Any suspected bioterrorist threat or event	690.800

b) Class I(b)

The following diseases shall be reported as soon as possible during normal business hours, but within 24 hours (i.e., within 8 regularly scheduled business hours after identifying the case), to the local health authority, who shall then report to the Department as soon as possible, but within 24 hours. This interval applies to primary reporters identified in Section 690.200(a)(1) who are required to report to local health authorities and to local health authorities who are required to report to the Department. The Section number associated with each of the listed diseases indicates the Section under which the diseases are reportable. Laboratory specimens of agents required to be submitted under Subpart C shall be submitted within 7 days after identification of the organism to the Department laboratory.

1)	Botulism, intestinal, wound, and other	690.327

2)	Chickenpox (Varicella)	690.350

3)	Cholera*	690.360

4)	Diphtheria*	690.380

5)	Escherichia coli infections* (E. coli O157:H7 and other Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, enterotoxigenic E. coli, enteropathogenic E. coli and enteroinvasive E. coli)	690.400

6)	Foodborne or waterborne illness	690.410

7)	Haemophilus influenzae, meningitis and other invasive disease*	690.441

8)	Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome*	690.442

9)	Hemolytic uremic syndrome, post-diarrheal	690.444

10)	Hepatitis A	690.450

11)	Measles	690.520

12	Mumps	690.520

13)	Neisseria meningitidis, meningitis and invasive disease*	690.555

14)	Pertussis* (whooping cough)	690.750

15)	Poliomyelitis	690.580

16)	Rabies, human	690.600

17)	Rabies, potential human exposure	690.601

18)	Rubella	690.620

19)	Smallpox vaccination, complications of	690.655

20)	Staphylococcus aureus, Methicillin resistant (MRSA) clusters of 2 or more cases in a community setting	690.658

21)	Staphylococcus aureus, Methicillin resistant (MRSA), occurring in infants under 61 days of age	690.660

22)	Staphylococcus aureus infections with intermediate or high level resistance to Vancomycin*	690.661

23)	Streptococcal infections, Group A, invasive and sequelae to Group A streptococcal infections	690.670

24)	Typhoid fever*	690.730

25)	Typhus	690.740

c) Class II

The following diseases shall be reported as soon as possible during normal business hours, but within 7 days, to the local health authority which shall then report to the Department within 7 days. The Section number associated with each of the listed diseases indicates the Section under which the diseases are reportable. Laboratory specimens of agents required to be submitted under Subpart C shall be submitted within 7 days after identification of the organism to the Department laboratory.

1)	Arboviral Infection* (including, but not limited to, California encephalitis, St. Louis encephalitis and West Nile virus)	690.322

2)	Brucellosis*	690.330

3)	Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease	690.362

4)	Cryptosporidiosis	690.365

5)	Cyclosporiasis	690.368

6)	Giardiasis	690.420

7)	Hepatitis B and Hepatitis D	690.451

8)	Hepatitis C	690.452

9)	Histoplasmosis	690.460

10)	Influenza, Deaths in persons less than 18 years of age	690.465

11)	Legionellosis*	690.475

12)	Leprosy	690.480

13)	Leptospirosis*	690.490

14)	Listeriosis*	690.495

15)	Malaria*	690.510

16)	Psittacosis	690.590

17)	Q-fever*	690.595

18)	Salmonellosis* (other than typhoid fever)	690.630

19)	Shigellosis*	690.640

20)	Toxic shock syndrome due to Staphylococcus aureus infection	690.695

21)	Streptococcus pneumoniae, invasive disease in children less than 5 years	690.678

22)	Tetanus	690.690

23)	Tickborne Disease, including ehrlichiosis,, anaplasmosis, Lyme disease, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever	690.698

24)	Trichinosis	690.710

25)	Tularemia*	690.725

26)	Vibriosis (Non-cholera Vibrio infections)	690.745

27)	Yersiniosis	690.752

* Diseases for which laboratories are required to forward clinical materials to the Department's laboratory.

d) When an epidemic of a disease dangerous to the public health occurs, and present rules are not adequate for its control or prevention, more stringent requirements shall be issued by this Department.

(Source: Amended at 32 Ill. Reg. 3777, effective March 3, 2008)