This section describes the conditions that Washington's health care providers must notify public health authorities of on a statewide basis. The board finds that the conditions in the table below (Table HC-1) are notifiable for the prevention and control of communicable and noninfectious diseases and conditions in Washington. Principal health care providers shall notify public health authorities of these conditions as individual case reports using procedures described throughout this chapter. Other health care providers in attendance shall notify public health authorities of the following notifiable conditions, unless the condition notification has already been made. Local health officers may require additional conditions to be notifiable within the local health officer's jurisdiction.
also include requirements for how notifications shall be made, when they shall be made, the content of these notifications, and how information regarding notifiable conditions cases must be handled and may be disclosed.
| Notifiable Condition | Time Frame for Notification | Notifiable to Local Health Department | Notifiable to State Department of Health |
| Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Animal Bites | Immediately | √ | |
| Arboviral Disease | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Asthma, occupational | Monthly | | √ |
| Birth Defects – Autism Spectrum Disorders | Monthly | | √ |
| Birth Defects – Cerebral Palsy | Monthly | | √ |
| Birth Defects – Alcohol Related Birth Defects | Monthly | | √ |
| Botulism (foodborne, infant, and wound) | Immediately | √ | |
| Brucellosis (Brucella species) | Immediately | √ | |
| Campylobacteriosis | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Chancroid | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Chlamydia trachomatis infection | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Cholera | Immediately | √ | |
| Cryptosporidiosis | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Cyclosporiasis | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Diphtheria | Immediately | √ | |
Disease of suspected bioterrorism origin (including):
• Anthrax
• Smallpox | Immediately | √ | |
| Disease of suspected foodborne origin (communicable disease clusters only) | Immediately | √ | |
| Disease of suspected waterborne origin (communicable disease clusters only) | Immediately | √ | |
| Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (shiga-like toxin producing infections only) such as E. coli O157:H7 Infection | Immediately | √ | |
| Giardiasis | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Gonorrhea | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Granuloma inguinale | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Haemophilus influenzae (invasive disease, children under age 5) | Immediately | √ | |
| Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Hemolytic uremic syndrome | Immediately | √ | |
| Hepatitis A (acute infection) | Immediately | √ | |
| Hepatitis B (acute infection) | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Hepatitis B surface antigen + pregnant women | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Hepatitis B (chronic) – Initial diagnosis, and previously unreported prevalent cases | Monthly | √ | |
| Hepatitis C – Acute and chronic | Monthly | √ | |
| Hepatitis (infectious), unspecified | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Herpes simplex, neonatal and genital (initial infection only) | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Legionellosis | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Leptospirosis | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Listeriosis | Immediately | √ | |
| Lyme Disease | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Lymphogranuloma venereum | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Malaria | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Measles (rubeola) | Immediately | √ | |
| Meningococcal disease | Immediately | √ | |
| Mumps | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Paralytic shellfish poisoning | Immediately | √ | |
| Pertussis | Immediately | √ | |
| Pesticide poisoning (hospitalized, fatal, or cluster) | Immediately | | √ |
| Pesticide poisoning (all other) | Within 3 work days | | √ |
| Plague | Immediately | √ | |
| Poliomyelitis | Immediately | √ | |
| Psittacosis | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Q Fever | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Rabies (Confirmed Human or Animal) | Immediately | √ | |
| Rabies (Including use of post-exposure prophylaxis) | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Relapsing fever (borreliosis) | Immediately | √ | |
| Rubella (including congenital rubella syndrome) | Immediately | √ | |
| Salmonellosis | Immediately | √ | |
| Serious adverse reactions to immunizations | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Shigellosis | Immediately | √ | |
| Syphilis | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Tetanus | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Trichinosis | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Tuberculosis | Immediately | √ | |
| Tularemia | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Typhus | Immediately | √ | |
| Vibriosis | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Yellow fever | Immediately | √ | |
| Yersiniosis | Within 3 work days | √ | |
| Other rare diseases of public health significance | Immediately | √ | |
| Unexplained critical illness or death | Immediately | √ | |