Health Care Provider Information on Waterborne Illness

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Required Disease Reporting
News
Disease-specific Information
Additional information

Required Disease Reporting

• Reporting an Infectious Disease
  Healthcare providers are required to report to the Minnesota Department of Health all confirmed or suspected cases of the following:
  • Cryptosporidiosis (Cryptosporidium)
  • Enteric Escherichia coli infection
    (E. coli O157:H7, other enterohemorrhagic E. coli,
    enteropathogenic E. coli, enteroinvasive E. coli)
  • Free-living Amebic Infections (including Acanthamoeba spp., Naegleria fowleri, Balamuthia spp., Sappina spp.)
  • Giardiasis (Giardia lamblia)
  • Legionellosis (Legionella)
  • Shigellosis (Shigella)
    
    
• Illness-related Restrictions for Food Workers and for Children or Staff in a Child Care or Preschool Setting
  Cases are subject to restriction on child care/preschool attendance and food handling.
  

News

• Disease Control Newsletter
  The Minnesota Department of Health Disease Control Newsletter (DCN) has been published for over 20 years, including a yearly issue devoted to an annual summary of reported communicable diseases.

Disease-specific information

Required reporting information, clinical features, laboratory diagnosis, treatment, and other clinical information.

• Cryptosporidiosis
  
• E. coli and HUS
• Giardiasis
• Legionellosis
• Shigellosis

Additional information on waterborne illness

• CDC: Healthy Swimming