Review key updates to the rule in the Health Advisory issued on May 18, 2026.
Vermont’s list of reportable diseases and the time frames in which they are required to be reported to the Health Department are specified in Vermont law (Reportable and Communicable Disease Rule).
The Vermont Department of Health depends on reports of diseases and conditions of public health concern to protect the health of Vermont residents. Timely reporting ensures that cases of communicable disease can be investigated quickly so steps can be taken to prevent the spread of the disease. Organizations and professionals who know or suspect that a person has (or has died of) a disease dangerous to the public’s health are required to report to the Health Department.
Health care providers and laboratories are required by law to notify the Health Department regarding patients with certain suspected or confirmed reportable diseases. Both laboratory confirmed and clinical diagnoses are reportable within 24 hours. Immediate reporting is essential for a limited number of conditions that require prompt public health follow-up (like measles and meningococcal disease), and for diseases that might indicate a bioterrorism incident.
According to the Rule, the following professionals are required to report suspected or confirmed cases of reportable diseases:
Phone: The Infectious Disease Program at 802-863-7240 or 1-800-640-4374 (within Vermont only) from 7:45 a.m. through 4:30 p.m. on business days. An epidemiologist is available 24/7 for immediately reportable diseases.
Report online: Health care professionals can use a secure online report form for conditions that are not immediately notifiable. Do not use this form for immediately notifiable conditions or Lyme disease. Clinical information for cases of Lyme disease no longer needs to be reported to the Health Department; instead, laboratory evidence of infection is required to be counted in surveillance estimates in Vermont. Please see 2022 Health Advisory for more information.
Fax: Health Care professionals can fax paper reports to the Epidemiology Program's confidential fax at 802-951-4061 for non-immediately reportable diseases.
Use electronic laboratory reporting or for immediately reportable findings, call the Infectious Disease Program at 802-863-7240 or 1-800-640-4374 (VT only), available 24/7.
If you have questions about how to send specimens to the VDHL, please call customer service at 802-338-4724.
Suspected and confirmed reportable diseases are required to be reported to the Health Department.
∗ Examples of institutions for influenza outbreak reports include long-term care facilities, schools, child care facilities, correctional facilities, shelters, camps, hospitals, and day care centers.
Download a PDF of the Reportable Disease list
Reportable Diseases, Syndromes, and Treatments | Reportable Laboratory Findings | Reporting Timeline | Specimens Required to go to VDHL |
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Anaplasmosis | Anaplasma phagocytophilum | Within 24 hours |
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| Anthrax | Bacillus anthracis, bacillus cereus, biovar anthracis | Immediately | Yes |
Babesiosis | Babesia microti, Babesia divergens, Babesia duncani | Within 24 hours |
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Blastomycosis | Blastomyces species | Within 24 hours |
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Blood lead levels | All results, including undetectable | Within 24 hours |
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| Botulism | Clostridium botulinum | Immediately | Yes |
| Brucellosis | Brucella species | Immediately | Yes |
Campylobacteriosis | Campylobacter species | Within 24 hours | Yes |
Candida auris illness | Candida auris | Within 24 hours | Yes |
Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) infection/colonization | Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB), including susceptibility results | Within 24 hours | Yes |
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) infection/colonization | Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE), including susceptibility results | Within 24 hours | Yes |
Carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (CRPA) infection/colonization | Carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (CRPA), including susceptibility results | Within 24 hours | Yes |
Chikungunya virus disease | Chikungunya virus | Within 24 hours |
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Chlamydia trachomatis infection | Chlamydia trachomatis | Within 24 hours |
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| Cholera | Vibrio cholerae serogroups O1 or O139 | Immediately | Yes |
COVID-19 – positive results | SARS-CoV-2 | Within 24 hours |
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COVID-19-related pediatric deaths | SARS-CoV-2 | Within 24 hours |
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease/transmissible spongiform encephalopathies | N/A | Within 24 hours |
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Cryptosporidiosis | Cryptosporidium species | Within 24 hours | Yes |
Cyclosporiasis | Cyclospora cayetanensis | Within 24 hours |
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Dengue | Dengue virus | Within 24 hours |
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| Diphtheria | Corynebacterium diphtheriae | Immediately | Yes |
Eastern equine encephalitis | Eastern equine encephalitis virus | Within 24 hours | Yes |
Ehrlichiosis | Ehrlichia chaffeensis, Ehrlichia ewingii, Ehrlichia muris eauclairensis | Within 24 hours |
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Encephalitis | N/A | Within 24 hours |
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| Glanders | Burkholderia mallei | Immediately | Yes |
Gonorrhea | Neisseria gonorrhoeae | Within 24 hours |
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| Haemophilus influenzae disease, invasive | Haemophilus influenzae, isolated from a normally sterile site, including susceptibility results | Immediately | Yes |
Hantavirus disease | Hantaviruses | Within 24 hours | Yes |
Hard tick relapsing fever | Borrelia miyamotoi | Within 24 hours |
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Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) | N/A | Within 24 hours |
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| Hepatitis A (acute) | Hepatitis A virus (anti-HAV IgM) | Immediately |
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Hepatitis B | Hepatitis B virus (HBsAg, anti-HBcIgM, HBeAg, HBV DNA) | Within 24 hours |
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Hepatitis B, positive surface antigen in a pregnant person | Hepatitis B virus (HbsAg) | Within 24 hours |
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Hepatitis C | Positive hepatitis C antibody results and all positive and non-detectable nucleic acid test results, including genotype | Within 24 hours |
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Hepatitis E | Hepatitis E virus (IgM anti-HEV) | Within 24 hours |
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| Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection/AIDS | Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) including the following: HIV viral load measurement, including non-detectable results All HIV subtype and HIV nucleotide sequence data from antiretroviral drug resistance testing | Within 24 hours | |
| Infant botulism | Clostridium botulinum | Immediately | Yes |
| Influenza - only novel influenza A strains | Only novel influenza A strains | Immediately | Yes - only novel influenza A |
| Influenza-related pediatric deaths and institutional outbreaks | N/A | Within 24 hours |
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Jamestown Canyon virus disease | Jamestown Canyon virus | Within 24 hours | Yes |
La Crosse virus disease | La Crosse virus | Within 24 hours | Yes |
Legionellosis | Legionella species | Within 24 hours | Yes |
Leptospirosis | Leptospira species | Within 24 hours | Yes |
Listeriosis | Listeria monocytogenes | Within 24 hours | Yes |
Lyme disease | Borrelia burgdorferi, Borrelia mayonii | Within 24 hours |
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Malaria | Plasmodium species | Within 24 hours |
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| Measles (Rubeola) | Measles virus | Immediately |
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| Melioidosis | Burkholderia pseudomallei | Immediately | Yes |
| Meningitis, bacterial | Neisseria meningitidis isolated from a normally sterile site, including susceptibility results, Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from a normally sterile site, including susceptibility results, Haemophilus influenzae isolated from a normally sterile site, including susceptibility results | Immediately |
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| Meningococcal disease | Neisseria meningitidis, isolated from a normally sterile site, including susceptibility results | Immediately | Yes |
| Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) | MERS CoV | Immediately | Yes |
Mpox (human monkeypox) | MPXV Clade I and Clade II, non-variola Orthopoxvirus | Within 24 hours |
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Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) | SARS-CoV-2 | Within 24 hours |
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Mumps | Mumps virus | Within 24 hours |
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Pertussis (whooping cough) | Bordetella pertussis | Within 24 hours |
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| Plague | Yersinia pestis | Immediately | Yes |
| Poliovirus infection, including poliomyelitis | Poliovirus | Immediately |
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Powassan virus disease | Powassan virus | Within 24 hours | Yes |
Psittacosis | Chlamydia psittaci | Within 24 hours |
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Q fever | Coxiella burnetii | Within 24 hours | Yes |
| Rabies, human and animal cases | Rabies virus | Immediately |
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Rabies post-exposure prophylaxis in humans | N/A | Within 24 hours |
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Reye syndrome | N/A | Within 24 hours |
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Ricin toxicity | Ricin toxin | Within 24 hours | Yes |
| Rubella (German measles) | Rubella virus | Immediately |
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Rubella, congenital rubella syndrome | Rubella virus | Within 24 hours |
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| Salmonella Paratyphi infection | Salmonella enterica serotypes Paratyphi A, B [tartrate negative], and C [S. Paratyphi] | Immediately | Yes |
| Salmonella Typhi infection | Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi | Immediately | Yes |
Salmonellosis | Salmonella species (non-Typhi) | Within 24 hours | Yes |
| Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) | SARS-CoV/SARS-associated | Immediately | Yes |
Shiga toxin-producing E.coli (STEC) | Shiga toxin-producing E.coli (STEC) (including O157:H7) | Within 24 hours | Yes |
Shigellosis | Shigella species | Within 24 hours | Yes |
| Smallpox | Variola virus | Immediately |
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Spotted fever group rickettsioses | Rickettsia species | Within 24 hours |
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St. Louis encephalitis | St. Louis encephalitis virus | Within 24 hours | Yes |
Streptococcal disease, group A, invasive | Streptococcus pyogenes (group A), isolated from a normally sterile site | Within 24 hours | Yes |
Streptococcal disease, group B invasive (infants less than one month of age) | Streptococcus agalactiae (group B), isolated from a normally sterile site (infants less than one month of age) | Within 24 hours |
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Streptococcus pneumoniae disease, invasive | Streptococcus pneumoniae, isolated from a normally sterile site, including susceptibility results | Within 24 hours |
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Syphilis | Treponema pallidum and all confirmatory tests for syphilis that result from an initial positive screening test, regardless of result (positive and negative) | Within 24 hours |
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Tetanus | Clostridium tetani | Within 24 hours |
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Toxic shock syndrome | N/A | Within 24 hours |
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Trichinellosis | Trichinella species | Within 24 hours |
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| Tuberculosis disease | Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, including susceptibility results, interferon gamma release assay (IGRA), tuberculin skin test (TST) | Immediately | Yes, MTB complex only (IGRAs and TSTs are not required to be sent) |
Tuberculosis infection, latent | Interferon gamma release assay (IGRA), tuberculin skin test (TST) | Within 24 hours |
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| Tularemia | Francisella tularensis | Immediately | Yes |
Vaccinia (disease or adverse event) | Vaccinia virus | Within 24 hours |
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Varicella (chickenpox only) | Varicella virus | Within 24 hours |
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Vibriosis | Vibrio species | Within 24 hours | Yes |
VRSA, VISA infection | Staphylococcus aureus, vancomycin resistant (VRSA) and vancomycin intermediate (VISA), including susceptibility results | Within 24 hours | Yes |
West Nile virus illness | West Nile virus | Within 24 hours | Yes |
Yellow fever | Yellow fever virus | Within 24 hours |
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Yersiniosis | Yersinia enterocolitica | Within 24 hours | Yes |
Zika virus disease and infection | Zika virus | Within 24 hours |
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The list below shows reportable animal diseases to the Department of Health. Other diseases may be reportable to the Agency of Agriculture.
| Reportable Animal Diseases | Reporting Timeline |
|---|---|
| Anthrax | within 24 hours |
| Arboviral: eastern equine encephalitis, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, western equine encephalitis, West Nile virus | within 24 hours |
| Avian Chlamydiosis (Psittacosis, Ornithosis) | within 24 hours |
| Brucellosis (Brucella species) | within 24 hours |
| Glanders (Burkholderia mallei) | within 24 hours |
| Hantavirus | within 24 hours |
| Hendra virus | within 24 hours |
| Highly pathogenic avian influenza | within 24 hours |
| Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex | within 24 hours |
| Nipah virus | within 24 hours |
| Non-Variola Orthopoxvirus (mpox) | within 24 hours |
| Plague (Yersinia pestis) | within 24 hours |
| Q Fever (Coxiella burnetti) | within 24 hours |
| Rabies | within 24 hours |
| SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection | within 24 hours |
| Tularemia (Francisella tularensis) | within 24 hours |
| Typhus fever (Rickettsia prowazekii) | within 24 hours |
| Cryptosporidiosis | within 24 hours |
