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Overview
The New Brunswick Notifiable Diseases and Events Guide provides policies, program standards and guidelines for Regional Public Health in the prevention and control of reportable diseases and events. The guide is intended to be used in conjunction with other resources, including national practice standards, scientific literature, evidence-informed practice and expert advice from Medical Officers of Health.
The Guide is updated regularly to reflect changes in evidence and resources.
Notifiable Diseases and Events Guide
Food and water borne diseases
- Introduction — Food and water borne diseases (PDF 627 KB)
- Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) (PDF 168 KB)
- Botulism (PDF 468 KB)
- Campylobacterosis (PDF 176 KB)
- Cholera (PDF 204 KB)
- Cryptosporidiosis (PDF 233 KB)
- Cyclosporiasis (PDF 128 KB)
- Escherichia coli (pathogenic) infection (PDF 227 KB)
- Giardiasis (PDF 173 KB)
- Hepatitis A (PDF 181 KB)
- Hepatitis E (PDF 68 KB)
- Leptospirosis (PDF 77 KB)
- Listeriosis (Invasive) (PDF 114 KB)
- Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PDF 92 KB)
- Poliomyelitis (PDF 309 KB)
- Salmonellosis (PDF 434 KB)
- Shigellosis (PDF 252 KB)
- Staphylococcus Aureus Intoxications (PDF 79 KB)
- Typhoid Fever (Salmonella enterica Typhi) (PDF 345 KB)
- Vibrio Species (PDF 187 KB)
- Yersiniosis (PDF 162 KB)
Respiratory diseases
- Introduction — Respiratory diseases (PDF 1.3 MB)
- Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) (PDF 284 KB)
- Diphtheria (PDF 132 KB)
- Haemophilus Influenza (invasive) type B and non B (PDF 161 KB)
- Influenza (Laboratory Confirmed) (PDF 288 KB)
- Influenza caused by a new subtype (PDF 837 KB)
- Legionellosis (PDF 187 KB)
- Leprosy (PDF 152 KB)
- Measles (PDF 276 KB)
- Meningococcal (Invasive) Disease (PDF 357 KB)
- Mumps (PDF 567 KB)
- Pertussis (PDF 227 KB)
- Pneumococcal Disease (Invasive) (PDF 200 KB)
- Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) (PDF 469 KB)
- Rubella (PDF 182 KB)
- Smallpox (PDF 127 KB)
- Streptococcus group A beta-hemolytic (invasive) (PDF 461 KB)
- Tuberculosis (active) (PDF 342 KB)
- Varicella (PDF 473 KB)
Sexually transmitted and bloodborne diseases
- Introduction — STIs (PDF 1.6 MB)
- Chlamydial Infection (Genital) (PDF 230 KB)
- Cytomegalovirus (Congenital and Neonatal) (PDF 189 KB)
- Gonococcal Infection (PDF 210 KB)
- Hepatitis B (PDF 264 KB)
- Hepatitis C and G (PDF 247 KB)
- Herpes (Congenital and Neonatal) (PDF 146 KB)
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus / Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (PDF 244 KB)
- Mpox (PDF 475 KB)
- Streptococcus Group B Beta Hemolytic (Neonatal) (PDF 86 KB)
- Syphilis (PDF 317 KB)
Zoonotic and vector borne diseases
- Introduction — Zoonotic and vector borne diseases (PDF 681 KB)
- Anaplasmosis (PDF 158 KB)
- Anthrax (PDF 87 KB)
- Babesiosis (PDF 123 KB)
- Borrelia Miyamotoi (PDF 86 KB)
- Brucellosis (PDF 101 KB)
- Creutzfeld-Jacob disease (classic and new variant) (PDF 165 KB)
- Hantavirus (PDF 523 KB)
- Heamorrhagic Fevers (PDF 418 KB)
- Lyme Borreliosis (PDF 216 KB)
- Malaria (PDF 64 KB)
- Plague (Pneumonic and Bubonic) (PDF 645 KB)
- Powassan Virus Disease (PDF 116 KB)
- Psittacosis (PDF 113 KB)
- Q Fever (PDF 128 KB)
- Rabies (Human case of rabies) (PDF 73 KB)
- Rickettsiosis (PDF 219 KB)
- Tetanus (PDF 74 KB)
- Toxoplasmosis (PDF 91 KB)
- Tularemia (PDF 115 KB)
- West Nile Virus (PDF 175 KB)
- Yellow Fever (PDF 79 KB)
Emerging diseases
Materials and forms
- Regions 1-7 Public Health — Notifiable Disease Reportable Events Posters (PDF 586 KB)
- Antitoxin release form (PDF 135 KB)
- Diphtheria antitoxin (PDF 202 KB)
- Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) — Position statement (PDF 219 KB)
- Exposure to a Suspected Rabid Animal (Management of a human exposure) (PDF 625 KB)
- Physician rabies risk assessment guidelines (PDF 234 KB)
- Risk assessment exposure to a suspected rabid animal (PDF 515 KB)
- Hospital report human exposure — Suspected rabid animal and post-exposure prophylaxis recommended form (PDF 40 KB)
- Public health order for observation period (Dog, cat or ferret) (PDF 173 KB)
- Rabies sample submission form (PDF 202 KB)