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legionnaires' disease organism, legionella, notifiable diseases, reportable diseases, diseases considered to be of great public health importance, local, state, national agencies, centers, disease control, prevention, require that such diseases be reported, diagnosed by doctors, laboratories, permits surveillance, collection of statistics on the frequency, which the disease occurs, in turn allows these agencies to identify trends in disease occurrence, disease outbreaks, all states have a "reportable diseases" list, it is up to states to decide which diseases, reportable, most of these lists, similar, a few variations depending on geographical location, divided into several groups, mandatory written reporting, examples, gonorrhea, salmonellosis, mandatory reporting by telephone, examples, rubeola, measles, pertussis, whooping cough, report of total number of cases, examples, chickenpox, influenza, cancer, reported, state cancer registry, not all states have cancer registries, a typical state list, appear, name of state, law, the following diseases to be reported, local health department, name of state, health, please contact, ., acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, aids, amebiasis, anthrax *, botulism *, brucellosis, campylobacteriosis, cancer ***, chancroid, chickenpox **, chlamydial infections, cholera *, coccidioidomycosis, colorado tick fever, diphtheria *, echinococcosis, encephalitis, post-infectious, arthropod-borne, unspecified, food-borne illness, food poisoning, giardiasis, gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum, gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, hemophilus influenza, invasive disease, all serotypes, hepatitis a, hepatitis b, carriers, hepatitis, viral, type c, influenza **, legionellosis, leprosy, leptospirosis, lymphogranuloma venereum, malaria, meningitis, aseptic, bacterial, meningococcemia, mumps **, pelvic inflammatory disease, pertussis *, plague *, poliomyelitis *, q-fever, rabies, human, animal, *, relapsing fever, tick-borne, louse borne, rheumatic fever, rocky mountain spotted fever, rubella, rubella, congenital syndrome, rubeola *, salmonellosis, shigellosis, staphylococcal diseases **, syphilis, tetanus *, toxic shock syndrome, trichinosis, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid *, carriers, typhus *, yellow fever *, * telephone reporting required, ** report total cases only, *** cancer, reported to, state, cancer registry, state health department, attempt to find the source of many of these illnesses, food poisoning, amebiasis, case of sexually-transmitted diseases the state, attempt to locate sexual contacts to assure they, disease-free, appropriately treated, already infected, information obtained by reporting allows the state to make informed decisions, laws concerning activities, environment food handling, water purification, insect control, animal control, std, sexually-transmitted disease, tracking, immunization programs, please remember that the health care provider is bound by law to report these events, the diseases listed, in the state's reporting schedule should make every effort to cooperate, the state health workers, cooperation, help locate the source of an infection, prevent the spread of an epidemic.