Reporting - Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 22, § 822

Whenever a physician believes that his or her patient has a disease or condition that has been designated as “notifiable”, the physician must notify the Department of Health and Human Services by telephone, as well as submit to the department a report.  The department must provide the forms for making required reports.  The department may designate any communicable disease, environmental disease, occupational disease or exposure to a toxic agent as a notifiable disease or condition.  Additionally, any pattern of cases or illness beyond the expected number of cases in a given period, or cases or illness regardless of apparent agent which may indicate a newly recognized infectious agent, or an outbreak, or related public health hazard, must be reported immediately by telephone to the Department.