Code of Massachusetts Regulations
105 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Title 105 CMR 300.000 - Reportable Diseases, Surveillance, and Isolation and Quarantine Requirements
Section 300.180 - Diseases Reportable Directly to the Department

(A) Reporting of Suspect or Confirmed Active Tuberculosis Disease. Any health care provider, laboratory, board of health or administrator of a city, state or private institution or hospital who has knowledge of a case of confirmed tuberculosis or clinically suspected tuberculosis, as defined in 105 CMR 300.020, shall notify the Department within 24 hours by telephone, in writing, by facsimile or other electronic means, as defined by the Department. When available, full demographic, epidemiologic, clinical and laboratory information on the case, as defined by the Department shall be included in each report. Upon receipt of such notice, the Department shall notify the local board of health in the community where the case resides via MAVEN.

(B) Reporting of Tuberculosis Infection (also known as Latent Tuberculosis Infection). Any health care provider, board of health or administrator of a city, state or private institution or hospital who has knowledge of a case of tuberculosis infection as determined by skin test or other test for determining the presence of tuberculosis infection shall notify the Department in a written or electronic format as designated by the Department. A skin test for tuberculosis which meets criteria for indicating tuberculosis infection according to the published guidelines of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Department is itself reportable. When available, full demographic, epidemiologic, clinical and laboratory information on the case, as defined by the Department shall be included in each report.

(C) Any health care provider, laboratory, board of health or administrator of a city, state or private institution or hospital who has knowledge of the diseases listed as follows shall notify the Department within 24 hours, by telephone, in writing, by facsimile or other electronic means, as defined by the Department. When available, full demographic, epidemiologic, and clinical and laboratory information on the case, as defined by the Department must be included in each report.

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS);

Chancroid;

Chlamydial infection;

Gonorrhea;

Granuloma inguinale;

Herpes simplex infection, neonatal (onset within 60 days after birth);

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection;

Lymphogranuloma venereum;

Ophthalmia neonatorum caused by any agent;

Pelvic inflammatory disease of any etiology; and

Syphilis.

(D) The following work-related diseases and injuries are reportable directly to the Department by physicians and other health care providers in a manner approved by the Department no later than ten days after diagnosis or identification. Said report must include, at a minimum, the reporter's name and address; the patient's name, address, telephone number, age and sex, race/ethnicity, if known; the employer's name and location where the occupational exposure or injury reportedly occurred; the diagnosis of the disease or description of the injury; the patient's occupation if known; and any other information as requested by the Department.

(E) Reporting of Work-related Traumatic Injuries to a Person Younger than 18 Years Old.