Overview
The public health disease management guidelines provide policy direction for investigation and follow-up of notifiable diseases in Alberta. The guidelines are a collaboration between the Government of Alberta and subject matter experts for public health management of notifiable communicable diseases based on evidence-informed best practices.
The public health management guidelines support health practitioners in meeting the legal reporting requirements and appropriate public health actions legislated under the Public Health Act.
Notifiable disease surveillance
- Alberta Notifiable disease annual summaries
- Alberta passive tick surveillance dashboard
- H5N1 avian influenza in Alberta
- Lyme disease and tick surveillance
- Respiratory virus dashboard
- Sexually transmitted infections and HIV reports
- Tuberculosis in Alberta surveillance report 2013 to 2022
- West Nile virus and surveillance
Notifiable disease reporting references
- Notifiable Disease Report (NDR) Manual, 10th Edition
- Notifiable disease reporting references: MOH and Designate
- Notifiable disease reporting references: Laboratories
Notifiable disease management guidelines
Access all the notifiable disease guidelines on Open Alberta.
- Acute Flaccid Paralysis
- Aeromonas
- Amoebiasis
- Anaplasmosis
- Anthrax
- Arboviral infections
- Babesiosis
- Bacillus Cereus
- Botulism
- Brucellosis
- Campylobacteriosis
- Candida Auris
- Carbapenemase Producing Organism
- Cerebrospinal Fluid Isolates
- Chancroid
- Chikungunya Virus
- Chlamydia (includes perinatally acquired)
- Cholera (O1 and O139)
- Clostridium difficile – Associated Infection
- Clostridium Perfringens
- Coronavirus – COVID-19
- Coronavirus – MERS/SARS
- Coronavirus – Novel
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Cyclosporiasis
- Cytomegalovirus, Congenital
- Diphtheria
- Disease in Unusual Form
- Ebola Virus Disease
- Echinococcosis (Alveolar)
- Enterovirus D68
- Escherichia coli (Shiga toxin-producing)
- Giardiasis
- Gonorrhea (includes perinatally acquired)
- Haemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS)
- Haemophilus Influenzae Invasive
- Hantavirus
- Hepatitis – Acute, Severe, of Unknown Origin in Children
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C – Acute
- Hepatitis C – Chronic
- Hepatitis E
- Herpes Simplex, Neonatal
- Histoplasmosis
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
- Influenza – Avian
- Influenza – Seasonal
- Legionellosis
- Leprosy
- Listeriosis
- Lyme Disease
- Lymphogranuloma Venereum
- Malaria
- Measles
- Meningococcal Disease, Invasive (IMD)
- Mpox
- Muco-Purulent Cervicitis
- Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children and Adolescents
- Mumps
- Non-Gonococcal Urethritis
- Norovirus
- Paratyphoid Fever
- Pertussis
- Plague
- Pneumococcal Disease, Invasive (IPD)
- Poliomyelitis
- Psittacosis
- Q-Fever
- Rabies
- Rare or Emerging Communicable Disease
- Respiratory Syncytial Virus
- Rickettsial Infections
- Rotavirus
- Rubella
- Rubella, Congenital Infection / Syndrome
- Salmonellosis
- Severe Acute Pulmonary Disease Associate with Electronic Cigarette Use
- Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI)
- Shellfish Poisoning
- Shigellosis
- Smallpox
- Streptococcal Disease Group A Invasive
- Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis
- Syphilis
- Syphilis, Congenital
- Tetanus
- Toxoplasmosis, Congenital
- Trichinosis
- Tuberculosis
- Tularemia
- Typhoid Fever
- Varicella (Chickenpox)
- Vibrio Cholerae (non O1, non O139)
- Vibrio Parahaemolyticus
- Viral Haemorrhagic Fever Including:
- Argentine Haemorrhagic Fever
- Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever
- Lassa Fever
- Marburg Haemorrhagic Fever
- Rift Valley Haemorrhagic Fever
- Yersiniosis
HIV/STI forms and guideline documents
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Medical Officer of Health forms
Forms to be used by Medical Officers of Health when last resort interventions related to communicable diseases, as prescribed under the Public Health Act, are necessary.
- Notice of recalcitrant patient
- Certificate of a Medical Officer of Health
- Order to Apprehend Recalcitrant Patient
- Isolation Order
- Cancellation of Isolation Order
- Warrant for Examination
- Order to Apprehend Isolation Patient
- Memorandum of Transfer
Forms and related documents
- Acute Severe Hepatitis (non-hepatitis A-E) of Unknown Origin in Children CMOH letter to Medical Officers of Health
- Acute Hepatitis (non hepatitis A-E) case report form, PHAC – Severe, Unknown Origin in Children
- Carbapenemase-Producing Organism (CPO) Case Report form
- Carbapenemase-Producing Organism (CPO) Case Report – Definitions
- COVID-19/Seasonal Influenza/RSV death and hospitalized case report
- COVID-19/Seasonal Influenza/RSV death and hospitalized case report definitions
- Enteric transmission risk assessment and exclusion table
- Enterovirus D68 enhanced surveillance form
- Lyme disease – laboratory tests
- Lyme disease – notes for clinicians
- Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children and adolescents temporally related to COVID-19 – Case report form
- Outbreak reporting form
- Outbreak reporting form definitions
- Outbreak reporting form tuberculosis definitions and instructions
- Outbreak response protocol for unusual outbreaks
- Perinatally acquired notifiable disease enhanced report form
- PHAC hypothesis generating questionnaires
- Post exposure prophylaxis form – Hib, IMD, Pertussis
- Post-exposure management and prophylaxis guidelines – HIV, HBV, HCV and STIs
- Prenatal screening guidelines
- Rabies prevention and control manual
- Request for Medication Payment Coverage – Leprosy form
- Request for Medication Payment Coverage – Rheumatic Fever form
- Request for Medication Payment Coverage – Tuberculosis (TB) form
- Tickborne diseases enhanced surveillance form
- Tickborne diseases enhanced surveillance form – definitions
- Tuberculosis policy
- West Nile virus – notes for clinicians
Contact
Connect with Primary and Preventative Health Services:
If you are a public health professional:
Email: [email protected]
All other inquiries:
Contact government or use your Alberta.ca account.
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