O. Reg. 135/18: DESIGNATION OF DISEASES

filed March 29, 2018 under Health Protection and Promotion Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.7

ontario regulation 135/18

made under the

Health Protection and Promotion Act

Made: March 19, 2018
Filed: March 29, 2018
Published on e-Laws: April 3, 2018
Printed in The Ontario Gazette: April 14, 2018

Designation of Diseases

Designated diseases

1. For the purposes of the Act, a disease set out in Column 1 of the Table is designated as a disease of public health significance and,

(a) a communicable disease, if it is identified as such in Column 2 of the Table; and

(b) a virulent disease, if it is identified as such in Column 3 of the Table.

Diseases against which immunizing agents are used

2. The following diseases are specified as diseases for the purposes of the definition of “immunizing agent” in subsection 38 (1) of the Act:

1. Diphtheria.

2. Haemophilus influenzae b.

3. Hepatitis A.

4. Hepatitis B.

5. Herpes Zoster.

6. Human Papillomavirus.

7. Influenza.

8. Japanese encephalitis.

9. Measles.

10. Meningococcal.

11. Mumps.

12. Pertussis.

13. Pneumococcal.

14. Poliomyelitis.

15. Rabies.

16. Rotavirus.

17. Rubella.

18. Smallpox.

19. Tetanus.

20. Travellers’ diarrhea.

21. Tuberculosis.

22. Typhoid Fever.

23. Varicella.

24. Yellow Fever.

Revocations

3. The following Regulations are revoked:

1. Ontario Regulation 558/91 (Specification of Communicable Diseases).

2. Ontario Regulation 559/91 (Specification of Reportable Diseases).

3. Ontario Regulation 95/03 (Specification of Virulent Diseases).

Commencement

4. (1) Subject to subsection (2), this Regulation comes into force on the later of the day subsection 14 (4) of Schedule 3 to the Strengthening Quality and Accountability for Patients Act, 2017 comes into force and the day this Regulation is filed.

(2) Section 2 comes into force on the later of the day subsection 2 (5) of Schedule 3 to the Strengthening Quality and Accountability for Patients Act, 2017 comes into force and the day this Regulation is filed.

Table
Designated Diseases

Item	Column 1 Diseases of public health significance	Column 2 Whether the disease is a communicable disease	Column 3 Whether the disease is a virulent disease
1.	Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)	Yes	No
2.	Acute Flaccid Paralysis	No	No
3.	Amebiasis	Yes	No
4.	Anthrax	Yes	No
5.	Blastomycosis	Yes	No
6.	Botulism	Yes	No
7.	Brucellosis	Yes	No
8.	Campylobacter enteritis	Yes	No
9.	Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) infection or colonization	Yes	No
10.	Chancroid	Yes	No
11.	Chickenpox (Varicella)	Yes	No
12.	Chlamydia trachomatis infections	Yes	No
13.	Cholera	Yes	Yes
14.	Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) outbreaks in public hospitals	Yes	No
15.	Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, all types	Yes	No
16.	Cryptosporidiosis	Yes	No
17.	Cyclosporiasis	Yes	No
18.	Diphtheria	Yes	Yes
19.	Echinococcus multilocularis infection	Yes	No
20.	Encephalitis, primary, viral	Yes	No
21.	Encephalitis, post-infectious, vaccine-related, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, unspecified	No	No
22.	Food poisoning, all causes	Yes	No
23.	Gastroenteritis, outbreaks in institutions and public hospitals	Yes	No
24.	Giardiasis, except asymptomatic cases	Yes	No
25.	Gonorrhoea	Yes	Yes
26.	Group A Streptococcal disease, invasive	Yes	No
27.	Group B Streptococcal disease, neonatal	No	No
28.	Haemophilus influenzae disease, all types, invasive	Yes	No
29.	Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome	Yes	No
30.	Hemorrhagic fevers, including: Ebola virus disease, Marburg virus disease, Lassa fever, and other viral causes	Yes	Yes
31.	Hepatitis A, viral	Yes	No
32.	Hepatitis B, viral	Yes	No
33.	Hepatitis C, viral	Yes	No
34.	Influenza	Yes	No
35.	Legionellosis	Yes	No
36.	Leprosy	Yes	Yes
37.	Listeriosis	Yes	No
38.	Lyme Disease	No	No
39.	Measles	Yes	No
40.	Meningitis, acute, including: bacterial, viral and other	Yes	No
41.	Meningococcal disease, invasive	Yes	No
42.	Mumps	Yes	No
43.	Ophthalmia neonatorum	No	No
44.	Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning	Yes	No
45.	Paratyphoid Fever	Yes	No
46.	Pertussis (Whooping Cough)	Yes	No
47.	Plague	Yes	Yes
48.	Pneumococcal disease, invasive	Yes	No
49.	Poliomyelitis, acute	Yes	No
50.	Psittacosis/Ornithosis	Yes	No
51.	Q Fever	Yes	No
52.	Rabies	Yes	No
53.	Respiratory infection outbreaks in institutions and public hospitals	Yes	No
54.	Rubella	Yes	No
55.	Rubella, congenital syndrome	Yes	No
56.	Salmonellosis	Yes	No
57.	Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)	Yes	No
58.	Shigellosis	Yes	No
59.	Smallpox	Yes	Yes
60.	Syphilis	Yes	Yes
61.	Tetanus	Yes	No
62.	Trichinosis	Yes	No
63.	Tuberculosis	Yes	Yes
64.	Tularemia	Yes	No
65.	Typhoid Fever	Yes	No
66.	Verotoxin-producing E. coli infection, including Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (HUS)	Yes	No
67.	West Nile Virus Illness	No	No
68.	Yersiniosis	Yes	No

Made by:
Pris par :

La ministre de la Santé et des Soins de longue durée,

Helena Jaczek

Minister of Health and Long-Term Care

Date made: March 19, 2018
Pris le : 19 mars 2018

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