Texas Notifiable Conditions

In addition to the specified reportable conditions, any outbreak, exotic disease, or unusual group expression of disease that may be of public health concern should be reported by the most expeditious means available.

Report Immediately

24/7/365 Disease Reporting Phone Line (254) 750-5411

  • Anthrax
  • Botulism (adult and infant)
  • Controlled substance overdose
  • Coronavirus, novel
  • Diphtheria
  • Influenza, novel
  • Lead, child blood, any level & adult blood, any level
  • Measles (rubeola)
  • Melioidosis
  • Meningococcal infection, Invasive (Neisseria meningitidis)
  • Plague (Yersinia pestis)
  • Poliomyelitis, acute paralytic
  • Rabies, human
  • Smallpox
  • Tularemia
  • Vancomycin-intermediate Staph aureus (VISA)
  • Vancomycin-resistant Staph aureus (VRSA)
  • Viral hemorrhagic fever (including Ebola)
  • Yellow Fever

Report within One Business Day

24/7/365 Disease Reporting Phone Line (254) 750-5411
Fax Line (254)750-5405

  • Brucellosis
  • Candida auris
  • Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE)
  • Hepatitis A
  • Hepatitis B, perinatal (HBsAg + < 24 months old)(child)
  • Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), acute infection1
  • Influenza-associated pediatric mortality
  • Mumps
  • Pertussis
  • Poliovirus infection, non-paralytic
  • Q Fever
  • Rubella (including congenital)
  • Syphilis – primary and secondary stages1
  • Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex)2
  • Vibrio infection, including cholera

1 Must also be reported to the HIV/STD Clinic at (254) 750-5498
2 Must also be reported to the Tuberculosis Clinic at (254) 750-5496

Report within One Week

24/7/365 Disease Reporting Phone Line (254) 750-5411
Fax Line (254)750-5405

  • Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)1
  • Amebic meningitis and encephalitis
  • Anaplasmosis
  • Arboviral infections
  • Asbestosis
  • Ascariasis
  • Babesiosis
  • Campylobacteriosis
  • Cancer3
  • Chagas disease
  • Chancroid
  • Chicken pox (varicella)
  • Chlamydia trachomatis infection1
  • Cronobacter spp. in infants, invasive
  • Cryptosporidiosis
  • Cyclosporiasis
  • Cysticercosis
  • Echinococcosis
  • Ehrlichiosis
  • Fascioliasis
  • Gonorrhea1
  • Haemophilus influenzae, invasive
  • Hansen’s disease (leprosy)
  • Hantavirus infection
  • Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS)
  • Hepatitis B, C, and E (acute)
  • Hepatitis B infection identified prenatally or at delivery (mother)
  • Hookworm (ancyclostomiasis)
  • Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), non-acute infection1
  • Legionellosis
  • Leishmaniasis
  • Listeriosis
  • Lyme disease
  • Malaria
  • Paragonimiasis
  • Pesticide poisoning, acute occupational
  • Prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
  • Salmonellosis, including typhoid fever
  • Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli 
  • Shigellosis
  • Spotted fever rickettsioses
  • Streptococcal disease (S. pneumo), invasive
  • Syphilis - all other stages, including congenital syphilis
  • Taenia solium and undifferentiated Taenia infection
  • Tetanus
  • Tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF)
  • Trichinosis
  • Trichuriasis
  • Tuberculosis infection2
  • Typhus
  • Yersiniosis

1 Must also be reported to the HIV/STD Clinic at (254) 750-5498
2 Must also be reported to the Tuberculosis Clinic at (254) 750-5496
3 Refer to DSHS Cancer Reporting
4 Refer to DSHS Birth Defects Laws & Rules

Report within Ten Business Days

24/7/365 Disease Reporting Phone Line (254) 750-5411
Fax Line (254)750-5405

  • Drowning/near drowning
  • Spinal cord injury
  • Traumatic brain injury

Report within One Month

24/7/365 Disease Reporting Phone Line (254) 750-5411
Fax Line (254)750-5405

  • Contaminated sharps injury
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