Report a Disease

For Healthcare Providers Only

 

KERN COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES DEPARTMENT

1800 Mt. Vernon Ave, Bakersfield, CA 93306

CONFIDENTIAL MORBIDITY REPORT (CMR)

Interested in reporting electronically through the CalREDIE Provider Portal?  Call (661) 321-3000.

 

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE REPORTING

Title 17, California Code of Regulations, §2500, requires that known or suspected cases of any of the diseases listed below are to be reported to the local health jurisdiction within the specified time frame:

REPORT IMMEDIATELY BY PHONE

During Business Hours: (661) 321-3000
After Hours: (661) 241-3255 (Ask for Public Health On-Call Staff)
Anthrax Foodborne Disease (2 or More Cases) Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning
Botulism (Specify Infant, Foodborne, Wound, Other) Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Plague (Specify Human or Animal)
Brucellosis, Human Influenza, Novel Strains, Human Rabies (Specify Human or Animal)
Cholera Measles (Rubeola) Scrombroid Fish Poisoning
Ciguatera Fish Poisoning Meningococcal Infections Shiga Toxin (Detected in Feces)
Diphtheria Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Smallpox (Variola)
Domonic Acid Poisoning (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning)  Novel Coronavirus Infection Tularemia, human
Flavivirus Infection of Undetermined Species Novel Virus Infection with Pandemic Potential Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (Crimean-Congo, Ebola, Lassa, and Marburg Viruses)
Immediately report occurrence of any unusual disease OR outbreaks of any disease.

 

REPORT BY PHONE, FAX, MAIL WITHIN ONE (1) WORKING DAY

Phone: (661) 321-3000          Fax: (661) 868-0261
Mail: 1800 Mt Vernon Ave, Bakersfield, CA 93306
Electronically via the California Reportable Disease Information Exchange (CalREDIE)
Babesiosis Hepatitis A, Acute Infection Salmonellosis (Other than Typhoid Fever)
Campylobacteriosis Listeriosis Shigellosis
Chickenpox (Outbreak, Hospitalization and Death) Malaria Syphilis (all stages, including congenital)
Chikungunya Virus Infection Meningitis (Specify Viral, Bacterial, Fungal, or Parasitic) Trichinosis
Cryptosporidiosis Paratyphoid Fever Tuberculosis (TB)
Dengue Virus Infection Pertussis (Whooping Cough)  Typhoid Fever (Case or Carrier)
Encephalitis (Specify Viral, Bacterial, Fungal, Parasitic) Poliovirus Infection Vibrio Infections
Escherichia coli: Shiga Toxin producing (STEC), including E. coli O157 Psittacosis  West Nile Virus Infection
Foodborne Disease (Individual Case) Q Fever Yellow Fever
Haemophilus Influenzae Invasive Disease, all serotypes (Cases <5 Years of Age) Relapsing Fever Yersiniosis
Hantavirus Infection Zika Virus Infection
   

 

REPORT BY PHONE, FAX, OR MAIL WITHIN SEVEN (7) CALENDAR DAYS

Phone: (661) 321-3000           Fax: (661) 868-0261
Mail: 1800 Mt Vernon Ave, Bakersfield CA 93306
Electronically via the California Reportable Disease Information Exchange (CalREDIE)
Anaplasmosis Gonococcal Infection Lyme Disease
Brucellosis, Animal (except Brucella canis) Hepatitis B (Specify Acute, Chronic or perinatal) Mumps
Chancroid Hepatitis C (Specify Acute, Chronic or perinatal) Respiratory Syncytial Virus - associated deaths in lab confirmed cases <5 Years of Age
Coccidioidomycosis Hepatitis D (Delta) (Specify Acute or Chronic) Rickettsial Diseases (non-Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever), Including Typhus and Typhus-like Illness
Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD) and Other Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE) Hepatitis E, Acute Infection Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Cyclosporiasis Influenza-associated deaths in lab-confirmed cases less than 18 years of age Rubella (German Measles)
Cysticercosis or Taeniasis Legionellosis Rubella Syndrome, Congenital
Ehrlichiosis Leprosy (Hansen Disease) Tetanus
Giardiasis Leptospirosis Tularemia, Animal
 

 

REPORT WITHIN SEVEN (7) CALENDAR DAYS BY TRACEABLE MAIL OR PERSON-TO-PERSON TRANSFER (COURIER)
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infections, any stage Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection, progression to Stage 3 (AIDS)