Reportable Diseases in South Dakota

(Effective December 2007)
The South Dakota Department of Health is authorized by SDCL 34-22-12 and ARSD 44:20 to collect and process mandatory reports of communicable diseases by physicians, hospitals, laboratories, and institutions. Instructions for reporting. (Download poster version of South Dakota reportable diseases list; use ADOBE)
Category 1:
Report immediately on suspicion
of disease
Category II:
Report within three days

Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)*
Botulism ((Clostridium botulinum)
Cholera (Vibrio cholerae)
Diphtheria (Corynebacterium
diphtheriae)
Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) shiga-toxin producing (Escherichia coli), includes E. coli O157:H7*
Influenza
, novel strains
Measles
(paramyxovirus)
Meningococcal disease, invasive
(Neisseria meningitidis)*
Plague (Yersinia pestis)*
Poliomyelitis
(picornavirus)
Rabies, human and animal
(rhabdovirus)
Ricin toxin

Rubella and congenital rubella
syndrome
(togavirus)
SARS
(Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, coronavirus)
Smallpox
(Variola)
Tularemia
(Francisella tularensis)*
Typhoid (Salmonella typhi)*
Viral Hemmorrhagic Fevers
(Filoviruses, arenaviruses)
Outbreaks

  • Acute upper respiratory illness
  • Diarrheal disease
  • Foodborne
  • Illnesses in child care settings
  • Nosocomial
  • Rash illness
  • Waterborne

Syndromes suggestive of bioterrorism and other public health threats unexplained illnesses or deaths in humans or animals














Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Arboviral encephalitis, meningitis and infection (West Nile, St. Louis, Eastern and Western equine, California serotype, Japanese, Powassan)
Brucellosis (Brucella spp.)*
Campylobacteriosis (Campylobacter spp.)
Chancroid (Haemophilus ducreyi)
Chicken pox/Varicella (herpesvirus)
Chlamydia infections (Chlamydia trachomatis)
Cryptosporidiosis (Cryptosporidum parvum)
Cyclosporiasis (Cyclospora cayetanesis)
Dengue fever (flavivirus)
Drug resistant organisms

  • Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), invasive
  • Vancomycin-resistant and intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA and VISA)*
  • Drug resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae (DRSP), invasive

Ehrlichiosis (Ehrlichia spp.)
Epsilon toxin of Clostridium perfringens
Giardiasis (Giardia lamblia / intestinalis)
Glanders (Burkholderia mallei)*
Gonorrhea (Neisseria gonorrhoeae)
Haemophilus influenzae type b disease, invasive*
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
(hantavirus)
Hemolytic uremic syndrome
Hepatitis, acute viral A, B, C, D, and E
Hepatitis, chronic viral B and C
Hepatitis B infection, perinatal
Herpes simplex virus infection, neonatal or genital
Human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV)

Influenza

  • hospitalizations and deaths,
  • lab-confirmed cases (culture, DFA, PCR),
  • weekly aggregate report of total rapid
    antigen positive (A and B) and total tested

Legionellosis (Legionella spp.)
Leprosy/Hansen's disease (Mycobacterium leprae)
Listeriosis (Listeria monocytogenes)*
Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi)
Malaria (Plasmodium spp.)
Melioidodosis (Burholderia pseudomallei)
Mumps (Paramyxovirus)
Nipah virus (Paramyxovirus)
Pertussis (Bordetella pertussis)Psittacosis (Chlamydophila psittaci)
Q fever (Coxiella burnetii)
Rocky Mountain spotted fever (Rickettsia rickettsii)
Salmonellosis (Salmonella spp.)*
Shigellosis (Shigella spp.)*
Staphylococcus enterotoxin B
Streptococcal Group A, invasive
Streptococcal Group B, invasive
Streptococcus pneumoniae, invasive, (<5 ears of age)
Syphilis (Treponema pallidum)
Tetanus (Clostridium tetani)
Toxic shock syndrome
Transmissible spongiform
encephalopathies

Trichinosis (Trichinella sprialis)
Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis) active disease and latent infection (positive skin test)
Typhus fever (Rickettsia prowazekii)
Vaccine Adverse Events
Yellow fever (flavivirus)

*Send isolate to South Dakota Public Health Laboratory

WHEN TO REPORT

Category I diseases are reportable immediately by telephone on recognition or strong suspicion of disease.
Category II diseases are reportable immediately by telephone, mail, or fax within 3 days of recognition or strong suspicion of disease.

WHATTO REPORT

Disease reports must include as much of the following as is known:

HOW TO REPORT

Computer icon Secure website: www.state.sd.us/doh/diseasereport
Cell phone Telephone: 1-800-592-1804 confidential answering-recording device, or 1-800-592-1861 or 605-773-3737 for a disease surveillance person during normal business hours; after hours to report Category I diseases, call 605-280-4810
Fax machine Fax: 605-773-5509
Envelope Mail or courier, address to: Infectious Disease Surveillance, Office of Disease Prevention, Department of Health, 615 East 4th Street, Pierre, SD 57501; marked "Confidential Disease Report"

CANCER (SDCL 1-43-14) Report to SD Cancer Registry; call 800-738-2301; Reportable cancers list found at http://doh.sd.gov/SDCR/PDF?ReportableList.pdf.

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (SDCL 34-24-27) Report to Office of Data, Statistics and Vital Records, 600 E. Capitol Ave, Pierre 57501 (605) 773-5683. Report forms: Diagnosed case of FAS; Suspected case of FAS (use ADOBE for both).

These bacterial isolates should be sent to the South Dakota Public Health Laboratory (call 605-773-3368) * Select Agent
*Bacillus anthracis
*Brucella
spp.
*Burkholderia spp.
E. coli, shigatoxin producing
*Francisella tularensis
Haemophilus influenzae B
Listeria monocytogenes
Neisseria meningitidis
Salmonella
spp.
Shigella spp.
Vancomycin intermediate/
resistant S. aureus
*Yersinia pestis