Disease Reporting in Big Horn County

 

All Montana health care providers are required to report patients diagnosed; Or suspected; with the conditions listed below to their county health department. Reporting enables public health officials to conduct follow-up on cases of significance and identify outbreaks or emerging health concerns. In addition, the information collected allows public and private health professionals to assess long-term trends and patterns in disease prevalence.

  

Conditions Requiring
Immediate Reporting
M - F 8 am - 5 pm: call 665-8790
After hours: call 911

  Anthrax2
  Botulism2 (including infant botulism)
  Diphtheria2
  Measles2 (Rubeola)
  Plague2
  Rabies2 or suspected human exposure
  Smallpox2
  Typhoid fever2

Other Reportable Conditions*

  AIDS or HIV Infection1&2
  Amebiasis
  Brucellosis2
  Campylobacter enteritis
  Chancroid
  Chlamydia genital infection
  Cholera2
  Colorado Tick Fever
  Cryptosporidiosis
  Cryptosporidiosis
  Cytomegaloviralillness
  Diarrheal disease outbreak
  E. coli enteritis
  Encephalitis
  Gastroenteritis epidemic
  Giardiasis
  Gonococcal infection
  Granuloma Inguinale
  Haemophilus influenza B invasive disease

 Other Reportable Conditions (Cont.)
  
  Hansen's disease (leprosy)
  Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome2
  Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
  Hepatitis A, B, Non A-Non B
  Influenza
  Kawasaki disease
  Lead Poisoning (³10,mg/dL)
  Legionellosis
  Listeriosis
  Lyme disease
  Lymphogranuloma Venereum
  Malaria
  Meningitis, bacterial or viral
  Mumps
  Ornithosis (psittacosis)
  Pertussis2 (whooping cough)
  Poliomyelitis2
  Q-fever
  Reye 's Syndrome
  Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
  Rubella2 (including congenital)
  Salmonellosi
  SARS
  Shigellosis
  Syphilis2
  Tetanus
  Trichinosis2
  Tuberculosis
  Tularemia
  West Nile Virus
  Yellow Fever
  Yersiniosis
  Illness in a foreign traveler
  Any outbreak of any communicable disease

 

Report suspected or confirmed cases to:

     Big Horn County Health Department
     809 North Custer A venue
     Hardin, MT 59034
     Phone: (406) 665-8720
     Fax: (406) 665-1025

Report adverse events following immunizations to the DPHHS IZ Program (406) 444-5580.

If you are unable to contact your county health department, call the Department of Public Health & Human Services at (406) 444-0273.

          

Report suspected or confirmed cases by faxing or mailing to the County Health Department.

1. AIDS and HIV infection are reportable directly to the state health department.
2. Requires specimen to be submitted to state health department for confirmation (ARM 16.28.305).