The Fort Wayne Allen County Department of Health

Infectious Disease Center

Director: Scott Rosheck, BSN, RN • Phone: (260) 449-7920 • FAX: (260) 449-3813 • Email: scott.rosheck@co.allen.in.us
Location: 4813 New Haven Ave., Fort Wayne, IN 46803 • Hours: 8 a.m. to Noon and 1 to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday
Meet the Staff: Jessica James, BSN, RN, Public Health Nurse; Dawn Sipes, BSN, RN, Public Health Nurse; Sandra Scovel, LPN; Laura Sanchez, Infectious Disease Specialist; Phil Steigerwald, Infectious Disease Specialist; Tin Moe Tun, TB Outreach • Lisa Little, LPN; LaQuisha Stapleton, Med. Assistant; Audrey Burton, Office Manager; Saw Lincoln, Interpreter

Reportable Communicable Diseases

To report a Communicable Disease, please contact the Department of Health's Infectious Disease Center at:

(260) 449-7920 Phone
(260) 449-3813 Fax

If after hours, please contact Allen County Dispatch at (260) 449-7661 and ask to have the Department's on-call representative paged.

Reportable Disease (Click on Disease for Information)	When to Report (From Probable Diagnosis)	Disease Intervention Methods (Secs. of Rule 410 IAC 1-2.3)
Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome	See HIV Infection/Disease	Sec. 76
Animal Bites	Within 24 hours	Sec. 52
Anthrax	Immediately	Sec. 53
Babesiosis	Within 72 hours	Sec. 54
Botulism	Immediately	Sec. 55
Brucellosis	Within 72 hours	Sec. 56
Campylobacteriosis	Within 72 hours	Sec. 57
Chancroid	Within 72 hours	Sec. 58
Chlamydia trachomatis, Genital Infection	Within 72 hours	Sec. 59
Cholera	Immediately	Sec. 60
Cryptosporidiosis	Within 72 hours	Sec. 61
Cyclospora	Within 72 hours	Sec. 62
Dengue Fever and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever	Immediately	Sec. 65
Diptheria	Immediately	Sec. 63
Ehrlichiosis	Within 72 hours	Sec. 64
Elevated lead levels, Level ≥ 10 µg/dL in children less than or equal to 6 years of age	Within one week	Sec. 87
Encephalitis (Arboviral, California, EEE, WEE, SLE, West Nile)	Immediately	Sec. 65
Escherichia coli Infection (E. coli O157:H7) and other enterohemorrhagic types	Immediately	Sec. 66
Giardiasis	Within 72 hours	Sec. 66.5
Gonorrhea	Within 72 hours	Sec. 67
Granuloma inguinale	Within 72 hours	Sec. 68
H. influenzae, invasive	Immediately	Sec. 69
Hansen's Disease (Leprosy)	Within 72 hours	Sec. 70
Hantavirus Pulmonary Disease	Immediately	Sec. 71
Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, Post-Diarrheal	Immediately	Sec. 66
Hepatitis, Viral, Type A	Immediately	Sec. 72
Hepatitis, Viral, Type B	Within 72 hours	Sec. 73
Hepatitis, Viral, Type B [Pregnant women (acute and chronic) or perinatally exposed infant]	Immediately	Sec. 73
Hepatitis, Viral, Type C (Acute)	Within 5 business days	Sec. 74
Hepatitis, Viral, Type D	Within 72 hours	Sec. 73
Hepatitis, Viral, Type E	Immediately	Sec. 74.5
Hepatitis, Viral, Unspecified	Within 72 hours
HIV infection/disease	Within 72 hours	Sec. 76
HIV (Pregnant women or perinatel exposed infant)	Immediately	Sec. 76
Influenza-Associated Death	Within 72 hours	Sec. 76.5
Legionellosis	Within 72 hours	Sec. 77
Leptospirosis	Within 72 hours	Sec. 78
Listeriosis	Within 72 hours	Sec. 79
Lyme Disease	Within 72 hours	Sec. 80
Lymphogranuloma Venereum	Within 72 hours	Sec. 81
Malaria	Within 72 hours	Sec. 82
Measles	Immediately	Sec. 83
Meningitis, Aseptic	Within 72 hours	Sec. 84
Meningococcal Disease, Invasive	Immediately	Sec. 85
Mumps	Within 72 hours	Sec. 86
Neonatal Herpes	Within 72 hours	Sec. 87.5
Pertussis	Immediately	Sec. 88
Plague	Immediately	Sec. 89
Poliomyelitis	Immediately	Sec. 90
Powassan Encephalitis	Immediately	Sec. 65
Psittacosis	Within 72 hours	Sec. 91
Q Fever	Immediately	Sec. 92
Rabies in humans or animals (confirmed and suspect animal with human exposure)	Immediately	Sec. 93
Rabies, Post-Exposure Treatment	Within 72 hours	Sec. 93 and 52
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever	Within 72 hours	Sec. 94
Rubella (German Measles)	Immediately	Sec. 95
Rubella Congenital Syndrome	Immediately	Sec. 95
Salmonellosis, Other than Typhoid Fever	Within 72 hours	Sec. 96
Shigellosis	Immediately	Sec. 97
Staphylococcus aureus, Vancomycin resistance level of MIC ≥ 8 µg/mL, or severe Staphylococcus aureus in a previously healthy person	Immediately	Sec. 98
Streptococcus pneumoniae, Invasive disease and antimicrobial resistance pattern	Within 72 hours	Sec. 99
Streptococcus, Group A, Invasive	Within 72 hours	Sec. 100
Streptococcus, Group B, Invasive	Within 72 hours	Sec. 101
Syphilis	Within 72 hours	Sec. 102
Tetanus	Within 72 hours	Sec. 103
Toxic Shock Syndrome (Streptococcal or Staphylococcal)	Within 72 hours	Sec. 104
Trichinosis	Within 72 hours	Sec. 105
Tuberculosis, Cases and Suspects	Within 72 hours	Sec. 106
Tularemia	Immediately	Sec. 107
Typhoid Fever, Cases and Carriers	Immediately	Sec. 108
Typhus, Endemic (Flea-borne)	Within 72 hours	Sec.109
Varicella (Chicken Pox)	Within 72 hours	Sec. 110
Vibriosis (Non-Cholera)	Within 72 hours	Sec. 110.5
Yellow Fever	Within 72 hours	Sec. 111
Yersiniosis	Within 72 hours	Sec. 112