State and Local AFM Contacts for Clinicians

Purpose

Send all information about patients who meet the clinical and laboratory/imaging criteria for AFM, regardless of laboratory results, to your state or local health department as soon as possible.

Contacts for reporting suspected Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) cases

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Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

 

California

Please contact the local health department first to report suspected cases of AFM or to obtain approval for testing. If the local health department cannot be reached contact the state health department at the number below.

Los Angeles County

Colorado

Connecticut

  • Business hours contact: 860-509-7929
  • After hours contact: 860-509-8000

Delaware

Florida

Please contact your county health department first to report a suspected AFM person under investigation. If the county health department cannot be reached, contact the state health department at 850-245-4401.

Georgia

Please go to the Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) webpage for current updates, resources, and reporting information: https://dph.georgia.gov/acute-flaccid-myelitis

Guam

Hawaii

  • Disease reporting line (7:45am to 4:30pm HST): (808) 586-4586
  • After hours/weekend number: (808) 600-3625, request the Standby Officer

Idaho

Illinois

Please contact your local health department (https://dph.illinois.gov/contact-us/regional-health-departments.html) first for consultation. If the local health department cannot be reached contact the state health department at the numbers below.

  • Business hours contact: 217-782-2016
  • After hours contact: 800-782-7860

Chicago

  • Provider reporting hotline: 312-743-9000 or 311 and ask for the communicable diseases physician on call

Indiana

  • Business hours contact: 317-233-7125
  • After hours contact: 317-233-1325

Iowa

  • Business hours contact: 800-362-2736
  • After hours contact: 515-323-4360

Kansas

Kentucky

  • Kentucky Immunization Branch Phone: 502-564-4478

Louisiana

  • Phone: 800-256-2748

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

  • Phone: 617-983-6800

Michigan

  • Business hours contact: 517-335-8165

Minnesota

  • Phone: 651-201-5414

Mississippi

  • Business hours contact: 601-576-7725
  • After hours contact: 601-576-7400

Missouri

  • Primary contact: 573-751-6113
  • After hours contact: 800-392-0272

Montana

Please contact your local health department first: https://dphhs.mt.gov/publichealth/FCSS/countytribalhealthdepts. If you are unable to reach your local public health department, contact the DPHHS Communicable Disease Epidemiology section to assist: 406-444-0273.

Nebraska

Nevada

  • For Clark County 24/7 phone: 702-759-1300 or fax: 702-759-1414

New Hampshire

  • Business hours contact:  603-271-4496
  • After hours contact:  603-271-5300

New Jersey

New Mexico

  • 24/7 Epidemiologist On-Call number: 1-833-SWNURSE (1-833-796-8773)

New York State

  • Weekdays: Bureau of Communicable Disease Control: 518-473-4439
  • Evenings, Weekends, and Holidays: 866-881-2809

New York City

  • Healthcare provider access line for reporting cases: 866-692-3641

North Carolina

  • General communicable disease on-call number (available 24/7): 919-733-3419

North Dakota

  • Primary contact: 701-328-2378 or 800-472-2180

Ohio

Oklahoma

  • Phone: 405-426-8710

Oregon

Palau

Pennsylvania

  • Phone: 1-877-PA-HEALTH

Philadelphia

  • Business hours contact: 215-685-6742
  • After hours contact: 215-686-4514—ask for Division of Disease Control

Puerto Rico

Rhode Island

  • Business hours contact: 401-222-2577
  • After hours contact: 401-276-8046

South Carolina

Please contact the regional public health office at https://www.scdhec.gov/sites/default/files/Library/CR-009025.pdf or the statewide DHEC emergency contact number: 888-847-0902.

South Dakota

  • Phone: 800-592-1861 or 605-773-3737

Tennessee

  • Phone: 615-741-7247

Texas

Houston

  • 24/7 Reporting Number:  832-393-5080
  • Fax:  832-393-5232

United States Virgin Islands

Utah

  • Business hours contact: 801-538-6191
  • After hours contact: 888-EPI-UTAH (Press 0)

Vermont

  • Primary contact (Available 24/7): 802-863-7240

Virginia

  • Phone: 804-864-8141

Washington, DC

Washington State

  • Communicable Disease (available 24/7): 206-418-5500

West Virginia

Contact the on-call epidemiologist:

  • During business hours: 304-558-5358 ext. 1
  • 24/7 answering service: 304-347-0843

Wisconsin

Wyoming

  • Phone: 877-996-9000
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Content Source:
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases; Division of Viral Diseases