Disease Reporting for Health Professionals
1000 SW Jackson Street, Suite 210
Topeka, KS 66612
Phone: 1-877-427-7317
Fax: 1-877-427-7318
Email: EpiHotline@kdhe.state.ks.us
- Purpose
- Contact Information
- Additional Special Reporting Requirements
- Suspected Act of Terrorism
- Laboratory Reporting Requirements
- Kansas Disease Reporting Regulations: K.A.R. 28-1
- Kansas Notifiable Diseases List and Form (.pdf)
- Kansas Notifiable Disease Form - for Laboratories Reporting Multiple Diseases (.pdf)
Purpose
This Web page was created to better enable health care providers, hospitals, and laboratories to report suspected or confirmed cases of reportable diseases to KDHE as provided for under K.S.A. 65-118, 65-128 and 65-6001 through 65-6007; and by K.A.R. 28-1-2 and 28-1-18.
Contact Information
Immediate telephone reports of suspect or confirmed cases, when required, should be made to KDHE toll free at: 1-877-427-7317. Isolates, when required, must be sent to: Division of Health and Environmental Laboratories, Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Forbes Field, Building #740, Topeka, KS 66620-0001, (785) 296-1636.
Mail reports to your local health department or to: Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology, 1000 SW Jackson, Suite 210, Topeka, KS 66612-1274. Reports can also be faxed to: 1-877-427-7318 (toll free).
For more information contact your local health department or call the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology at: 785-296-2951.
Additional Special Reporting Requirements
Outbreaks, unusual occurrence of any disease, and exotic or newly recognized diseases should immediately be reported by telephone: 1-877-427-7317 (toll free).
Suspected Act of Terrorism
Any health care provider identifying even a single case of a disease which the provider suspects to be due to a bioterrorist agent should make an immediate telephone report directly to the toll free Epi Hotline: 1-877-427-7317. The list of potential bioterrorist agents includes: anthrax, botulism, brucellosis, plague, tularemia, Q fever, smallpox, viral hemorrhagic fever, and "any other infectious or toxic agent that can be intentionally dispersed in the environment."
For more information, visit the Health Alert Network Web Page.
Laboratory Reporting Requirements
In addition to the above requirements, laboratories must report:
- Blood lead level (>10 µg/dl for children <18 years; >25 µg/dl for persons >18 years)
- CD4+ T-lymphocyte count < 500/ µl or CD4+ T-lymphocytes <29% of total lymphocytes