reportable disease

In general, for most reportable diseases, we generally assume between 20 and 30 percent of cases are reported.

By 1993, most states considered cancer a reportable disease.

Paratuberculosis is a reportable disease in some states of the US.

It should be made a mandatory reportable disease.

Cholera became the first reportable disease in the United States due to the significant effects it had on health.

H.I.V. is not a reportable disease in the states where most cases of it occur.

Three days later, the city made influenza a reportable disease, which meant that records had to be kept of numbers of cases.

Hearing loss is not a reportable disease.

It has been a reportable disease in New York State only since February 1994.

AIDS is already a reportable disease, meaning that doctors are required by law to give health officials the names of patients with the disease.

Besides bioterorism, the Health Threat Unit also has responsibility for other reportable diseases:

Lice infestation is not a reportable disease, so data on head lice incidence are sparse.

You should inform your employer or the person in control of the premises that you have been injured or have a work related reportable disease.

Bell's palsy is not a reportable disease, and there are no established registries for patients with this diagnosis, which complicates precise estimation.

Our State Legislature and Governor have mandated that AIDS is not a reportable disease.

In the United States these diseases are extremely rare or nonexistent; however, they are reportable diseases which all pet owners should be aware of.

Doctors who are haphazard in notifying health officials about cases of reportable diseases can skew the surveillance and seriously delay counterattacks, allowing cases to increase.

The Atlanta diseases center also plans to publish standard definitions of each reportable disease to avoid the variations that now exist among the states, making strict comparisons difficult.

The new system would require laboratories that perform blood tests to also note new AIDS cases, as they do now for other reportable diseases like tuberculosis.

But the potential loss of life should terrorists find a way to distribute infectious diseases in crowded cities is reason enough to go ahead with a national reportable disease law.

But allergies are not reportable diseases, so no statistics are available from the Nassau and Suffolk County Health Departments.

Subject to the three key factors outlined above, major injuries and over-three-day injuries, as well as reportable diseases arising from the work activity, will be reportable.

Reports of some 160 diseases are now required by at least one state, and the latest statistics on the 49 nationally reportable diseases are published weekly by the disease center.

Since 2002, Giardia cases must be reported to the Center for Disease Control, according to the CDC's Reportable Disease Spreadsheet.

To improve the accuracy of reports and to keep better track of Lyme cases, Federal and state health officials are making Lyme a nationally reportable disease, effective next year.