When should a reportable disease (including communicable & virulent diseases) be reported?
The HPPA (s. 25) requires a physician and practitioner who, while treating a person who is not a patient in or an out-patient of a hospital, believes that the person has or may have a reportable disease shall, as soon as possible, notify the medical officer of health of the health unit. The HPPA (s.26) requires a physician or registered nurse in the extended class 2 who, while treating a person, believes that the person is or may be infected with an agent of a communicable disease shall, as soon as possible, notify the medical officer of health of the health unit. In addition, the HPPA (s. 30) requires that a physician or registered nurse who signs a medical certificate of death where the cause was a reportable disease or a reportable disease was a contributing cause of death shall, as soon as possible, report the reportable disease to the local medical officer of health. Further information relating to when hospital administrators, the superintendents of certain institutions, school p
