180135 DESIGNATION OF DISEASES, O. Reg. 135/18 Ont.

For the purposes of the Act, a disease set out in Column 1 of the Table is designated as a disease of public health significance and,

The following diseases are specified as diseases for the purposes of the definition of “immunizing agent” in subsection 38 (1) of the Act:

Omitted (revokes other Regulations).

Omitted (provides for coming into force of provisions of this Regulation).

Table Designated Diseases

Item Column 1 Diseases of public health significance Column 2 Whether the disease is a communicable disease Column 3 Whether the disease is a virulent disease 1. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Yes No 2. Acute Flaccid Paralysis No No 3. Amebiasis Yes No 3.1 Anaplasmosis No No 4. Anthrax Yes No 4.1 Babesiosis No No 5. Blastomycosis Yes No 6. Botulism Yes No 7. Brucellosis Yes No 8. Campylobacter enteritis Yes No 8.1 Candida auris infection Yes No 9. Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) infection or colonization Yes No 10. Chancroid Yes No 11. Chickenpox (Varicella) Yes No 12. Chlamydia trachomatis infections Yes No 13. Cholera Yes Yes 14. Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) outbreaks in public hospitals Yes No 14.1 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Yes No 15. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, all types Yes No 16. Cryptosporidiosis Yes No 17. Cyclosporiasis Yes No 18. Diphtheria Yes Yes 18.1 Diseases caused by a novel coronavirus, including Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Yes No 19. Echinococcus multilocularis infection Yes No 20. Encephalitis, primary, viral Yes No 21. Encephalitis, post-infectious, vaccine-related, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, unspecified No No 22. Food poisoning, all causes Yes No 23. Gastroenteritis, outbreaks in institutions and public hospitals Yes No 24. Giardiasis, except asymptomatic cases Yes No 25. Gonorrhoea Yes Yes 26. Group A Streptococcal disease, invasive Yes No 27. Group B Streptococcal disease, neonatal No No 28. Haemophilus influenzae disease, all types, invasive Yes No 29. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome Yes No 30. Hemorrhagic fevers, including: Ebola virus disease, Marburg virus disease, Lassa fever, and other viral causes Yes Yes 31. Hepatitis A, viral Yes No 32. Hepatitis B, viral Yes No 33. Hepatitis C, viral Yes No 34. Influenza Yes No 35. Legionellosis Yes No 36. Leprosy Yes Yes 37. Listeriosis Yes No 38. Lyme Disease No No 39. Measles Yes No 40. Meningitis, acute, including: bacterial, viral and other Yes No 41. Meningococcal disease, invasive Yes No 42. Mumps Yes No 43. Ophthalmia neonatorum No No 44. Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning Yes No 45. Paratyphoid Fever Yes No 46. Pertussis (Whooping Cough) Yes No 47. Plague Yes Yes 48. Pneumococcal disease, invasive Yes No 49. Poliomyelitis, acute Yes No 49.1 Powassan virus No No 50. Psittacosis/Ornithosis Yes No 51. Q Fever Yes No 52. Rabies Yes No 53. Respiratory infection outbreaks in institutions and public hospitals Yes No 54. Rubella Yes No 55. Rubella, congenital syndrome Yes No 56. Salmonellosis Yes No 57. Revoked : O. Reg. 8/20, s. 1 (2). 58. Shigellosis Yes No 59. Smallpox and other orthopoxviruses, including monkeypox Yes Yes 60. Syphilis Yes Yes 61. Tetanus Yes No 62. Trichinosis Yes No 63. Tuberculosis Yes Yes 64. Tularemia Yes No 65. Typhoid Fever Yes No 66. Verotoxin-producing E. coli infection, including Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (HUS) Yes No 67. West Nile Virus Illness No No 68. Yersiniosis Yes No