Locations & Hours:
Reibold Building
117 S Main Street Dayton, Ohio 45422

Office Hours

Monday8:00am - 4:30pm

Tuesday8:00am - 4:30pm

Wednesday8:00am - 4:30pm

Thursday8:00am - 4:30pm

Friday8:00am - 4:30pm
Contact - Phone Number : 937-225-4508
Introduction:
The Communicable Disease Program helps to stop the spread of disease in our community by tracking and investigating infectious diseases, providing guidance and monitoring to affected individuals, and providing information regarding the spread of disease to other Public Health programs.

Communicable Disease reports are created by Public Health’s epidemiology program and are designed to provide current and historical information about disease in our community. These reports are used by Public Health programs, healthcare providers, local governments, and community partners to help inform their decision-making process when it comes to improving health outcomes.
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Communicable Disease Reporting

The Communicable Disease Program helps to stop the spread of disease in our community by tracking and investigating infectious diseases, providing guidance and monitoring to affected individuals, and providing information regarding the spread of disease to other Public Health programs.

Communicable Disease reports are created by Public Health’s epidemiology program and are designed to provide current and historical information about disease in our community. These reports are used by Public Health programs, healthcare providers, local governments, and community partners to help inform their decision-making process when it comes to improving health outcomes.

If you are a member of the public and are concerned you have a communicable disease, contact your doctor or a local hospital.

What is a communicable disease?

Any disease that spreads from one person to another.

What are some ways that communicable diseases spread?

Directly through physical contact with an infected person, such as through touch (staphylococcus), sexual intercourse (gonorrhea, HIV), fecal/oral transmission (hepatitis A), or large respiratory droplets from coughs and sneezes (influenza, TB)
Contact with a contaminated surface or object (Norwalk virus), food (salmonella, E. coli), blood (HIV, hepatitis B), or water (cholera)
Bites from insects or animals capable of transmitting the disease (mosquito- malaria and yellow fever; flea- plague)
Breathing small respiratory droplets that travel through the air, such as tuberculosis or measles.

What do communicable disease reporting nurses do?

Gather reports of diseases in Montgomery County
Conduct interviews to determine common risk factors
Educate exposed individuals and families
Provide recommendations for treatment and isolation
Determine the level of disease in the community
Control and prevent the spread of communicable diseases

Who needs to report diseases to the local health department?

Disease prevention and control is a cooperative effort involving health care providers and local and state health department personnel.
The State of Ohio requires all labs, physicians, hospitals, and other health professionals to report suspected and confirmed cases of certain infectious diseases to the local health department.
These reports protect the public’s health by quickly identifying outbreaks.

Which diseases must be reported to the local health department?

Examples of some reportable illnesses include measles, whooping cough, and chickenpox. Also reportable are foodborne illnesses such as Salmonella and E. Coli. Know Your ABCs: A Quick Guide to Reportable Infectious Diseases in Ohio lists reportable diseases by Class (A, B, or C).

How quickly must diseases by reported to the local health department?

Class	Report what?	Report how quickly?
Class A	A case, a suspected case, or a positive lab result	Immediately
Class B	A case, a suspected case, or a positive lab result	By the end of the next business day
Class C	An outbreak, incident or epidemic of a non-Class A or Class B disease	By the end of the next business day

All reportable diseases should be reported by healthcare professionals to the Communicable Disease Reporting Nurse by telephone or fax.

To report a Class A Communicable disease please call (937)225-4508 (Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm) immediately.
- For after hours and weekend reports of Class A Communicable Diseases, please call (937)225-3000.
To report a Class B or C Communicable disease
- Fax the completed Ohio Confidential Reportable Disease Form to the Communicable Disease department at (937)224-8853.