Disease Reporting

Acute Disease
Home

General Reporting Information

Disease Reporting in Florida

Florida enacted legislation in 1917 requiring the reporting of communicable diseases.  As had been repeatedly remarked at the time, "No health department, State or local, can effectively prevent or control disease without knowledge of when, where, and under what conditions cases are occurring."  With this information which is gathered in an accurate and consistent manner, we can determine the kind of health interventions that are necessary to control disease and the areas where the efforts should be made.

The list of reportable diseases is revised periodically and is detailed in Florida Administrative Code (F.A.C.) Chapter 64D-3.  For example, a disease may be added to the list as a new pathogen emerges, or a disease may be deleted as its incidence declines.  Please see the section with information for health professionals for a detailed list of diseases and conditions that are required to be reported by hospitals, physicians and laboratories.

 

Weekly:
Provisional data on selected reportable diseases are published weekly in the Excel file below.  Provisional data are presented statewide and by region on different sheets within the file.  The last sheet includes a map of the regions.

Weekly Tables (January 28, 2012)

Monthly:
Provisional data on selected reportable disease are published monthly in Epi Update.

Annually:
Data on selected reportable diseases are published at the end of the year in the Florida Annual Morbidity Statistics Report.  These reports contain the official statistics, in tabular and graphic form, for the reported occurrence of notifiable infectious diseases in Florida.  Unless otherwise noted, the data are final totals for the corresponding year.

On demand:
Data are also available through Florida's Interactive Communicable Disease Frequency Reports.

Florida Administrative Weekly and Florida Administrative Code
Florida Administrative Code 64D- 3
Public Health HIPAA Exempt
Letter from the State Surgeon General, Diseases and Conditions Reporting Changes to 64D-3 FAC
 

Information on Laboratory Specimen Collection and Submission

Florida Department of Health Bureau of Laboratories