SPECIFICATION OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

Health Protection and Promotion Act
Loi sur la protection et la promotion de la santé

ONTARIO REGULATION 558/91

Amended to O. Reg. 97/03

SPECIFICATION OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

Historical version for the period May 1, 2003 to July 27, 2006.

This Regulation is made in English only.

1. The following diseases are specified as communicable diseases for the purposes of the Act:

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

Amebiasis

Anthrax

Botulism

Brucellosis

Campylobacter enteritis

Chancroid

Chickenpox (Varicella)

Chlamydia trachomatis infections

Cholera

Cytomegalovirus infection, congenital

Diphtheria

Encephalitis, primary viral

Food poisoning, all causes

Gastroenteritis, institutional outbreaks

Giardiasis

Gonorrhoea

Group A Streptococcal disease, invasive

Haemophilus influenzae b disease, invasive

Hemorrhagic fevers, including,

i. Ebola virus disease

ii. Marburg virus disease

iii. Other viral causes

Hepatitis, viral,

i. Hepatitis A

ii. Hepatitis B

iii. Hepatitis D (Delta hepatitis)

iv. Hepatitis C

Influenza

Lassa Fever

Legionellosis

Leprosy

Listeriosis

Lyme Disease

Malaria

Measles

Meningitis, acute,

i. bacterial

ii. viral

iii. other

Meningococcal disease, invasive

Mumps

Ophthalmia neonatorum

Paratyphoid Fever

Pertussis (Whooping Cough)

Plague

Pneumococcal disease, invasive

Poliomyelitis, acute

Psittacosis/Ornithosis

Q Fever

Rabies

Respiratory infection outbreaks in institutions

Rubella

Rubella, congenital syndrome

Salmonellosis

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

Shigellosis

Smallpox

Syphilis

Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy, including,

i. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, all types

ii. Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker Syndrome

iii. Fatal Familial Insomnia

iv. Kuru

Trichinosis

Tuberculosis

Tularemia

Typhoid Fever

Verotoxin-producing E. coli infections

West Nile Virus Illness,

i. West Nile Virus Fever

ii. West Nile Virus Neurological Manifestations

Yellow Fever

Yersiniosis

O. Reg. 558/91, s. 1; O. Reg. 204/95, s. 1; O. Reg. 380/01, s. 1; O. Reg. 431/01, s. 1; O. Reg. 80/03, s. 1; O. Reg. 97/03, s. 1.

2. Omitted (revokes other Regulations). O. Reg. 558/91, s. 2.