Reporting Hantavirus Infection
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What to report
How to report
Who is required to report
More about Hantavirus infection
What to report
Hantavirus infection must be reported to MDH within one working day.
Case definition
- Hantavirus Case Definitions, CDC
Case definition from CDC's National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (NNDSS) for Hantavirus.
How to report Hantavirus infection
- Yellow Disease Report Card
This disease may be reported using the MDH "Yellow Card."
- Phone
Any reportable infectious disease may be reported by phone to 651-201-5414 or 877-676-5414.
Who is required to report
- Health care practitioners (health care facilities, medical laboratories, and in certain circumstances veterinarians and veterinary medical laboratories) are required to report disease to the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) under Minnesota state law.
- Unless previously reported, every licensed health care provider who provides care to any patient who has, is suspected of having, or has died from a reportable disease is required to report.
- Any person in charge of any institution, school, child care facility, or camp is also required to report disease to MDH.
More about Hantavirus infection
- Hantavirus, CDC
Information from the CDC on Hantavirus.
Spotlight
Reportable Disease Poster
Printable list of reportable communicable diseases in Minnesota.
Annual Summary of Disease Activity
Infectious disease surveillance information (statistics).
Antimicrobial Susceptibilities of Selected Pathogens
MDH antibiogram.
Contact us:
If you have questions or comments about this page, use our IDEPC Comment Form or call 651-201-5414 for the MDH Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control Division.
