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 Table HC-1 of this section are notifiable for the prevention and control of communicable and noninfectious diseases and conditions in Washington.
(1) Principal health care providers shall notify public health authorities of the conditions identified in Table HC-1 of this section as individual case reports following the requirements in WAC
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(2) Other health care providers in attendance, other than the principal health care provider, shall notify public health authorities of the conditions identified in Table HC-1 of this section unless the condition notification has already been made.
(3) Local health officers may require additional conditions to be notifiable within the local health officer's jurisdiction.
| Notifiable Condition | Time Frame for Notification | Notifiable to Local Health Department | Notifiable to State Department of Health |
| Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) | Within 3 business days | √ | |
| Animal Bites (when human exposure to rabies is suspected) | Immediately | √ | |
| Anthrax | Immediately | √ | |
| Arboviral Disease (acute disease only including, but not limited to, West Nile virus, eastern and western equine encephalitis, dengue, St. Louis encephalitis, La Crosse encephalitis, Japanese encephalitis, and Powassan) | Within 3 business 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) | Within 24 hours | √ | |
| Burkholderia mallei (Glanders) and pseudomallei (Melioidosis) | Immediately | √ | |
| Campylobacteriosis | Within 3 business days | √ | |
| Chancroid | Within 3 business days | √ | |
| Chlamydia trachomatis infection | Within 3 business days | √ | |
| Cholera | Immediately | √ | |
| Cryptosporidiosis | Within 3 business days | √ | |
| Cyclosporiasis | Within 3 business days | √ | |
| Diphtheria | Immediately | √ | |
| Disease of suspected bioterrorism origin | Immediately | √ | |
| Domoic acid poisoning | Immediately | √ | |
| E. coli – Refer to "Shiga toxin-producing E. coli" | Immediately | √ | |
| Emerging condition with outbreak potential | Immediately | √ | |
| Giardiasis | Within 3 business days | √ | |
| Gonorrhea | Within 3 business days | √ | |
| Granuloma inguinale | Within 3 business days | √ | |
| Haemophilus influenzae (invasive disease, children under age 5) | Immediately | √ | |
| Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome | Within 24 hours | √ | |
| Hepatitis A (acute infection) | Within 24 hours | √ | |
| Hepatitis B (acute infection) | Within 24 hours | √ | |
| Hepatitis B surface antigen + pregnant women | Within 3 business days | √ | |
| Hepatitis B (chronic infection) – Initial diagnosis, and previously unreported prevalent cases | Monthly | √ | |
| Hepatitis C (acute infection) | Within 3 business days | √ | |
| Hepatitis C (chronic infection) | Monthly | √ | |
| Hepatitis D (acute and chronic infection) | Within 3 business days | √ | |
| Hepatitis E (acute infection) | Within 24 hours | √ | |
| Herpes simplex, neonatal and genital (initial infection only) | Within 3 business days | √ | |
| Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection | Within 3 business days | √ | |
| Influenza, novel or unsubtypable strain | Immediately | √ | |
| Influenza-associated death (lab confirmed) | Within 3 business days | √ | |
| Legionellosis | Within 24 hours | √ | |
| Leptospirosis | Within 24 hours | √ | |
| Listeriosis | Within 24 hours | √ | |
| Lyme Disease | Within 3 business days | √ | |
| Lymphogranuloma venereum | Within 3 business days | √ | |
| Malaria | Within 3 business days | √ | |
| Measles (rubeola) – acute disease only | Immediately | √ | |
| Meningococcal disease (invasive) | Immediately | √ | |
| Monkeypox | Immediately | √ | |
| Mumps (acute disease only) | Within 24 hours | √ | |
| Outbreaks of suspected foodborne origin | Immediately | √ | |
| Outbreaks of suspected waterborne origin | Immediately | √ | |
| Paralytic shellfish poisoning | Immediately | √ | |
| Pertussis | Within 24 hours | √ | |
| Pesticide poisoning (hospitalized, fatal, or cluster) | Immediately | | √ |
| Pesticide poisoning (all other) | Within 3 business days | | √ |
| Plague | Immediately | √ | |
| Poliomyelitis | Immediately | √ | |
| Prion disease | Within 3 business days | √ | |
| Psittacosis | Within 24 hours | √ | |
| Q Fever | Within 24 hours | √ | |
| Rabies (Confirmed Human or Animal) | Immediately | √ | |
| Rabies, suspected human exposure (suspected human rabies exposures due to a bite from or other exposure to an animal that is suspected of being infected with rabies) | Immediately | √ | |
| Relapsing fever (borreliosis) | Within 24 hours | √ | |
| Rubella (including congenital rubella syndrome) (acute disease only) | Immediately | √ | |
| Salmonellosis | Within 24 hours | √ | |
| SARS | Immediately | √ | |
| Serious adverse reactions to immunizations | Within 3 business days | √ | |
| Shiga toxin-producing E. coli infections (enterohemorrhagic E. coli including, but not limited to, E. coli O157:H7) | Immediately | √ | |
| Shigellosis | Within 24 hours | √ | |
| Smallpox | Immediately | √ | |
| Syphilis | Within 3 business days | √ | |
| Tetanus | Within 3 business days | √ | |
| Trichinosis | Within 3 business days | √ | |
| Tuberculosis | Immediately | √ | |
| Tularemia | Immediately | √ | |
| Vaccinia transmission | Immediately | √ | |
| Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (not to include vancomycin-intermediate) | Within 24 hours | √ | |
| Varicella-associated death | Within 3 business days | √ | |
| Vibriosis | Within 24 hours | √ | |
| Viral hemorrhagic fever | Immediately | √ | |
| Yellow fever | Immediately | √ | |
| Yersiniosis | Within 24 hours | √ | |
| Other rare diseases of public health significance | Within 24 hours | √ | |
| Unexplained critical illness or death | Within 24 hours | √ | |