Notification by name of a reportable pathogen to the responsible health authority

The Infection Protection Act stipulates the reporting of certain pathogens as well as vaccine damage by doctors and laboratories.

The aim of infection protection is to prevent communicable diseases in humans, detect infections at an early stage and prevent their spread.

The Infection Protection Act (IfSG) obliges doctors and laboratories to report. A distinction is made between named reports of pathogens and non-named reports of pathogen detections as well as reports of vaccine damage.

Named pathogens:

Doctors and laboratories for medical diagnostics are obliged to provide the local health authorities responsible for medical practices with reports of abnormal findings if the pathogens named in the law are diagnosed during an examination or sample. The registration forms required for this are provided by the respective state authorities.

Unnamed pathogen detections:

The pathogen detections mentioned in § 7 Abs. 3 IfSG are not to be reported by name directly to the Robert Koch Institute. The RKI provides special laboratory registration forms for this purpose.

Vaccine damage:

The suspicion of damage to health beyond the usual level of a vaccination reaction must be reported. The report is made by the doctor to the locally responsible health authority.
 

The notification must be made to the health department in whose district the person concerned is currently staying or last stayed.  

If the person concerned is cared for or accommodated in an institution pursuant to § 9 paragraph 1 number 1 letter h IfSG, the reports must be made to the health authority in whose district the institution is located. Notwithstanding sentence 1, notifications pursuant to paragraph 2 shall be made to the health authority in whose district the senders are based, if the senders have no information on the whereabouts of the person concerned.

There are no deadlines to be observed.