Kern County Public Health Services Department
1800 Mt. Vernon Ave
Bakersfield, CA 93306

Confidential Morbidity Report (CMR)

• CMR: COVID-19 Only
• CMR: All Diseases except TB and Lapses of Consciousness
• CMR: Tuberculosis Only
• CMR: Lapse of Consciousness (for DMV reporting)
• Reportable Diseases by Reporting Urgency
• Laboratory Reporting Requirements
• Pesticide Illness Report

Report HIV and AIDS

• Adult HIV/AIDS Case Report Form (ACRF) Instructions
• Adult HIV/AIDS Case Report Form
• Pediatric HIV/AIDS Confidential Case Report 

Interested in reporting electronically through the CalREDIE Provider Portal? Call (661) 321-3000.

Communicable Disease Reporting

Title 17, California Code of Regulations, §2500, requires that known or suspected cases of any of the diseases listed below are to be reported to the local health jurisdiction within the specified time frame:

Report Immediately by Phone

During Business Hours: (661) 321-3000
After Hours: (661) 241-3255 (Ask for Public Health On-Call Staff)

• Anthrax
• Botulism (Specify Infant, Foodborne, Wound, Other)
• Cholera
• Ciguatera Fish Poisoning
• Diphtheria
• Domonic Acid Poisoning (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning)
• Flavivirus Infection of Undetermined Species
• Foodborne Disease (2 or More Cases)
• Influenza, Novel Strains, Human
• Measles (Rubeola)
• Melioidosis
• Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)
• Monkeypox or orthopox virus infection
• Neisseria Meningitidis (invasive disease)
• Novel Coronavirus Infection
• Novel Virus Infection with Pandemic Potential
• Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning
• Plague (Specify Human or Animal)
• Rabies (Specify Human or Animal)
• Scrombroid Fish Poisoning
• Tularemia, human
• Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (Crimean-Congo, Ebola, Lassa, and Marburg Viruses)
• Occurrence of any unusual disease
• Outbreak of any disease

Immediately report occurrence of any unusual disease OR outbreaks of any disease.

Report by Phone, Fax, Mail Within One (1) Working Day

Phone: (661) 321-3000
Fax: (661) 868-0261
Mail: 1800 Mt Vernon Ave
Bakersfield, CA 93306

Electronically via the California Reportable Disease Information Exchange (CalREDIE)

• Babesiosis
• Brucellosis, Human
• Campylobacteriosis
• Candida auris, Colonization or infection
• Chickenpox (Outbreak, Hospitalization and Death)
• Chikungunya Virus Infection
• Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) (Hospitalizations only)
• Cronobacter Sakazakii Infection (Cases <1 Year of age)
• Cryptosporidiosis
• Cyclosporiasis
• Dengue Virus Infection
• Encephalitis (Specify Viral, Bacterial, Fungal, Parasitic)
• Escherichia coli: Shiga Toxin producing (STEC), including E. coli O157
• Foodborne Disease (Individual Case)
• Haemophilus Influenzae Invasive Disease, all serotypes (Cases <5 Years of Age)
• Hantavirus Infection
• Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
• Hepatitis A, Acute Infection
• Legionellosis
• Listeriosis
• Malaria
• Meningitis (Specify Viral, Bacterial, Fungal, or Parasitic)
• Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)
• Paratyphoid Fever
• Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
• Poliovirus Infection
• Psittacosis
• Q Fever
• Relapsing Fever
• Salmonellosis (Other than Typhoid Fever)
• Shiga Toxin (Detected in Feces)
• Shigellosis
• Syphilis (all stages, including congenital)
• Trichinosis
• Tuberculosis (TB)
• Typhoid Fever (Case or Carrier)
• Vibrio Infections
• West Nile Virus Infection
• Yellow Fever
• Yersiniosis
• Zika Virus Infection

Report by Phone, Fax, or Mail Within Seven (7) Calendar Days

Phone: (661) 321-3000
Fax: (661) 868-0261
Mail: 1800 Mt Vernon Ave
Bakersfield, CA 93306

Electronically via the California Reportable Disease Information Exchange (CalREDIE)

• Anaplasmosis
• Brucellosis, Animal (exceptBrucella canis)
• Chancroid
• Coccidioidomycosis
• Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD) and Other Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE)
• Cysticercosis or Taeniasis
• Ehrlichiosis
• Giardiasis
• Gonococcal Infection
• Hepatitis B (Specify Acute, Chronic or perinatal)
• Hepatitis C (Specify Acute, Chronic or perinatal)
• Hepatitis D (Delta) (Specify Acute or Chronic)
• Hepatitis E, Acute Infection
• Influenza-associated deaths in lab-confirmed cases less than 18 years of age
• Leprosy (Hansen Disease)
• Leptospirosis
• Lyme Disease
• Mumps
• Respiratory Syncytial Virus - associated deaths in lab confirmed cases <5 Years of Age
• Rickettsial Diseases (non-Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever), Including Typhus and Typhus-like Illness
• Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
• Rubella (German Measles)
• Rubella Syndrome, Congenital
• Silicosis
• Tetanus
• Tularemia, Animal

Report Within Seven (7) Calendar Days by Traceable Mail or Person-To-Person Transfer (Courier)

• Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infections, any stage
• Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection, progression to Stage 3 (AIDS)