Control Disease Reportable Conditions

How and When to Report

Submit reports by one of the following methods:

• Conditions Immediately Reportable or Reportable Within 24 hours:

  • M-F, 8:30-5 PM: Call the regional public health office. See list of reportable conditions.

  • Nights, weekends, and holidays: Call the regional public health office night / weekend phone / pager number, or the statewide DHEC emergency contact number (1-888-847-0902).

• Conditions Reportable Within 3 Days:

  • Submit an electronic morbidity report via DHEC's web-based reporting system (SCIONx);

  • Complete the DHEC 1129 Disease Reporting Card and mail in an envelope marked confidential to the Division of Acute Disease Epidemiology (pdf); or

  • Call the regional public health office (pdf).

• If you are reporting from Out-of-State, mail to:

• Division of Acute Disease Epidemiology

• Mills/Jarrett Complex

• 2100 Bull Street, Columbia, SC 29201

To learn more about electronic disease reporting, call 1-800-917-2093.

• HIV, AIDS, and STDs (excluding Hepatitis): To report these conditions

  • Call 1-800-277-0873; or

  • Submit electronically via DHEC's electronic reporting system or

  • Submit a DHEC 1129 (pdf) Disease Reporting Card or appropriate CDC Case Report Form in a confidential envelope to:

  • Division of Surveillance & Technical Support

  • Mills/Jarrett Complex

  • Box 101106, Columbia, SC 29211

• Lead - Mail to:

• Bureau of Health Improvement & Equity, Lead Surveillance

• c/o Brian Humphries

• Sims-Aycock Building

• 2600 Bull Street

• Columbia, SC 292011

• or

• Fax: (803) 898-3236

• Call (803) 898-3641 to establish electronic reporting for lead.

• Tuberculosis:

• Report to the tuberculosis division in the regional public health department in the region in which the patient resides (See list of reportable conditions).