Reporting Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease) (Mycobacterium leprae)

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What to report
How to report
Who is required to report
More about Leprosy

What to report

Leprosy (Hansen's disease) (Mycobacterium leprae) must be reported to MDH within one working day.

Case definition

• CDC: Leprosy Case Definitions
  Case definition from CDC's National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (NNDSS) for Leprosy.

How to report Leprosy

• 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 Leprosy

• Hansen's Disease (Leprosy)
  Information from the CDC on Hansen's disease.