Kansas · Exotic or newly recognized disease

Reporting Timeframe

(a) Each person licensed to practice the healing arts or engaged in a postgraduate training program approved by the state board of healing arts, licensed dentist, licensed professional nurse, licensed practical nurse, administrator of a hospital, licensed adult care home administrator, licensed physician assistant, licensed social worker, and teacher or school administrator shall report each suspected case of the following infectious or contagious diseases or conditions to the secretary within four hours of knowledge of the suspected case: (1) Anthrax; (2) botulism; (3) cholera; (4) diphtheria; (5) measles (rubeola); (6) meningococcal disease; (7) mumps; (8) novel influenza A virus infection; (9) plague (Yersinia pestis); (10) poliovirus; (11) rabies, human; (12) rubella; (13) severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated cor-onovirus (SARS-CoV); (14) smallpox; (15) tetanus; (16) tuberculosis; (17) vaccinia, postvaccination infection or secondary transmission; (18) viral hemorrhagic fevers, including Ebola virus, Marburg virus, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, Lassa virus, Lujo virus, and any of the New World arenaviruses; and (19) any exotic or newly recognized disease.

Reporting Agency

mandated reporters are required to report some notifiable diseases or conditions to KDHE by telephone within four hours of the suspected case.

Reporter Class

Mandated reporters are required to notify public health regarding patients with a suspected or confirmed reportable disease/condition, as defined by Kansas statute and regulation : K.S.A. 65-118; 65-128; and 65-6001 through 65-6007; as well as K.A.R. 28-1-2 and 28-1-18.

Legal Authority

As outlined in K.A.R. 28-1-2 , mandated reporters are required to report some notifiable diseases or conditions to KDHE by telephone within four hours of the suspected case.