Measles Information for Providers
Healthcare providers must report a case, suspected case, and/or positive laboratory result immediately via telephone to the local public health department.
To report a case, suspected case, and/or positive laboratory result to Hamilton County Public Health, please call 513-946-7874.
Reporting Protocol
Measles is a Class A Reportable Infectious Disease. Report a case, suspected case, and/or positive laboratory result immediately via telephone to the local public health department in which the patient resides. If patient residence is unknown, report immediately via telephone to the local public health department in which the reporting healthcare provider or laboratory is located.
Prompt recognition, reporting, and investigation of measles is important because the spread of the disease can be limited with early case identification and public health response including vaccination and quarantine of susceptible contacts without presumptive evidence of immunity. Laboratory confirmation is essential for all measles outbreaks.
State and local health departments have the lead in investigating measles cases and outbreaks when they occur.
To report a case, suspected case, and/or positive laboratory result to Hamilton County Public Health, please call 513-946-7874. If you are calling to report after hours, please call 877-774-4636.
Below is a useful brochure containing contact details for the Southwest Ohio Public Health Region and a guide for reporting infectious diseases in Ohio.
For more clinical information regarding measles, please visit the CDC’s page for healthcare professionals.
Testing Information
The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) will accept specimens from suspected measles cases who meet the clinical criteria and meet one of the following: 1) have a recent travel history or known/potential exposure to a case of measles and/or 2) are unvaccinated.* Providers who suspect measles where the patient does not meet the criteria for ODH lab testing, should be instructed to send specimens to the laboratory they normally use.
Important Phone Numbers
What is the Infectious Disease Call Center?
This is a service provided by Southwest Ohio Health Departments to allow physicians, nurses, hospitals, laboratories, and EMS to report Class A, B, and C Infectious Diseases or other public health concerns 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
When to call:
- To report Class A, B and C Infectious Diseases.
- To report information for an early identification of a potential outbreak (Hepatitis A, Foodborne & Waterborne Outbreak).
- To alert public health officials of potential risk to the public of any suspicious biological terrorist event/attack.
- To report an unexpected pattern of disease/death or incident of disease.
- To request assistance for laboratory specimens to/from the Ohio Department Health (ODH)or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
- To consult with a public health physician/official.
During business hours contact:
Adams County Health Department
M-F 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
(937) 544-5547 ext. 101
(937) 544-3035 (Fax)
Brown County Health Department
M-F 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
(937) 378-6892 (Phone)
(937) 378-3632 (Fax)
Butler County General Health District
M-F 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.
(513) 863-1770 (Phone)
(513) 863-4391 (Fax)
Clermont County Public Health
M-F 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
(513) 735-8400 or (513) 732-7499
(513) 735-8420 (Fax)
Cincinnati Health Department
For TB, HIV, Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, and Syphilis contact Hamilton County Public Health.
M-F 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
(513) 357-7462 (Phone)
(513) 357-7396 (Fax)
Clinton County Health District
M-F 7:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
(937) 382-7221(Phone)
(937) 382-7027 (Fax)
Hamilton City Health Department
M-F 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
(513) 785-7080 (Phone)
(513) 785-7065 (Fax)
Hamilton County Public Health
M-F 7:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
(513) 946-7874 (Phone)
(513) 946-7930 (Fax)
Highland County Health Department
M,W 8:00 a.m. – 5:30p.m.
(937) 393-1941 (Phone)
(937) 393-5137 (Fax)
Middletown City Health Department
M-F 8:00 am – 5:00 p.m.
(513) 425-1818 (Phone)
(513) 425-7852 (Fax)
Norwood City Board of Health
M-F 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
(513) 458-4600 (Phone)
(513) 458-4606 (Fax)
Springdale City Health Department
M-F 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
(513) 346-5725 (Phone)
(513) 346-3975 (Fax)
Warren County Combined Health District
M-F 7:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
(513) 695-2097 (Phone)
(513) 695-2941 (Fax)
Public Health Infectious Disease Call Center
Provided by Southwest Ohio for Physicians, Nurses, Laboratories and Emergency Medical Services to report diseases 24 hours a day – 7 days a week.
(877-7PH-INFO)
Together we can strive for a healthy and safe community!
Know Your ABCs: A Quick Guide to Reportable Infectious Diseases in Ohio
From the Ohio Administrative Code Chapter 3701-3: Effective Audust 1, 2019
Class A:
Diseases of major public health concern because of the severity of disease or potential for epidemic spread – report immediately via telephone upon recognition that a case, a suspected case, or a positive laboratory result exists.
- Anthrax
- Botulism, foodborne
- Cholera
- Diphtheria
- Influenza A – novel virus infection
- Measles
- Meningococcal disease
- Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)
- Plague
- Rabies, human
- Rubella (not congenital)
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
- Smallpox
- Tularemia
- Viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF), including Ebola virus disease, Lassa fever, and Crimean- Congo hemorrhagic fever
Any unexpected pattern of cases, suspected cases, deaths or increased incidence of any other disease of major public health concern, because of the severity of disease or potential for epidemic spread, which may indicate a newly recognized infectious agent, outbreak, epidemic, related public health hazard or act of bioterrorism.
Class B:
Disease of public health concern needing timely response because of potential for epidemic spread – report by the end of the next business day after the existence of a case, a suspected case, or a positive laboratory result is known.
- Amebiasis
- Arboviral neuroinvasive and non-neuroinvasive disease:
- Chikungunya virus infection
- Eastern equine encephalitis virus disease
- LaCrosse virus disease (other California serogroup virus disease)
- Powassan virus disease
- St. Louis encephalitis virus disease
- West Nile virus infection
- Western equine encephalitis virus disease
- Yellow fever
- Zika virus infection
- Other arthropod-borne diseases
- Babesiosis
- Botulism
- infant
- wound
- Brucellosis
- Campylobacteriosis
- Candida auris
- Carbapenemase-producing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CP-CRE)
- CP-CRE Enterobacter spp.
- CP-CRE Escherichia coli
- CP-CRE Klebsiella spp.
- CP-CRE other
- Chancroid
- Chlamydia trachomatis infections
- Coccidioidomycosis
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Cyclosporiasis
- Dengue
- E. coli O157:H7 and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC)
- Ehrlichiosis/anaplasmosis
- Giardiasis
- Gonorrhea (Neisseria gonorrhoeae)
- Haemophilus influenzae (invasive disease)
- Hantavirus
- Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS)
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B (non-perinatal)
- Hepatitis B (perinatal)
- Hepatitis C (non-perinatal)
- Hepatitis C (perinatal)
- Hepatitis D (delta hepatitis)
- Hepatitis E
- Influenza-associated hospitalization
- Influenza-associated pediatric mortality
- Legionnaires’ disease
- Leprosy (Hansen disease)
- Leptospirosis
- Listeriosis
- Lyme disease
- Malaria
- Meningitis:
- Aseptic (viral)
- Bacterial
- Mumps
- Pertussis
- Poliomyelitis (including vaccine-associated cases)
- Psittacosis
- Q fever
- Rubella (congenital)
- Salmonella Paratyphi infection
- Salmonella Typhi infection (typhoid fever)
- Salmonellosis
- Shigellosis
- Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis, including Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF)
- Staphylococcus aureus, with resistance or intermediate resistance to vancomycin (VRSA, VISA)
- Streptococcal disease, group A, invasive (iGAS)
- Streptococcal disease, group B, in newborn
- Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS)
- Streptococcus pneumoniae, invasive disease (ISP)
- Syphilis
- Tetanus
- Toxic shock syndrome (TSS)
- Trichinellosis
- Tuberculosis (TB), including multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB)
- Varicella
- Vibriosis
- Yersiniosis
Class C:
Report an outbreak, unusual incident or epidemic of other diseases (e.g. histoplasmosis, pediculosis, scabies, staphylococcal infections) by the end of the next business day.
Outbreaks:
- Community
- Foodborne
- Healthcare-associated
- Institutional
- Waterborne
- Zoonotic
NOTE:
Cases of AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome), AIDS-related conditions, HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection, perinatal exposure to HIV, all CD4 T-lymphocyte counts and all tests used to diagnose HIV must be reported on forms and in a manner prescribed by the Director.
