{"id":5157,"date":"2025-02-05T15:40:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T20:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/?p=5157"},"modified":"2025-02-05T16:27:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T21:27:21","slug":"new-reportable-disease-candida-auris-c-auris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/news-articles\/new-reportable-disease-candida-auris-c-auris\/","title":{"rendered":"New Reportable Disease: Candida Auris (C. auris)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As of January 1, 2025, Candida Auris (<em>C. auris<\/em>) is now a reportable disease of public health significance under the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ontario.ca%2Flaws%2Fstatute%2F90h07&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cjsmith-engelhardt%40coto.org%7C73bf97916e734329ce3f08dd46211925%7C3e44edca930e491ab11d5556b24c5f0c%7C0%7C0%7C638743830139035257%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Sz9fz04LFj6l7hozGuyzNIW12gdhDCVlAmyw7S6wIJQ%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Health Protection and Promotion Act, 1990<\/a> <\/em>(HPPA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can view the Ministry of Health\u2019s <em>C. auris<\/em> appendix to support this update: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ontario.ca%2Ffiles%2F2025-01%2Fmoh-ophs-candida-auris-appendix-en-2025-01-23.pdf&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cjsmith-engelhardt%40coto.org%7C73bf97916e734329ce3f08dd46211925%7C3e44edca930e491ab11d5556b24c5f0c%7C0%7C0%7C638743830139056573%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=HjXLyA4k5eCvRDP09MItbgtKrt7N%2FXBbzK3bukBk%2B2c%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Candida Auris Case Definition and Disease Specific Information 2025<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Occupational therapists are encouraged to review the document and be aware of the prevention and control measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are an occupational therapist and have any questions or concerns, please contact us at&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"mailto:practice@coto.org\">practice@coto.org<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>or call<strong>&nbsp;416-214-1177<\/strong>&nbsp;or<strong>&nbsp;1-800-890-6570 x240<\/strong> to speak with our Practice team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of January 1, 2025, Candida Auris (C. auris) is now a reportable disease of public health significance under the Health Protection and Promotion Act, 1990 (HPPA). You can view the Ministry of Health\u2019s C. auris appendix to support this update: Candida Auris Case Definition and Disease Specific Information 2025 Occupational therapists are encouraged to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advanced_seo_description":"As of January 1, 2025, Candida Auris (C. auris) is now a reportable disease of public health significance under the Health Protection and Promotion Act, 1990 (HPPA).","jetpack_seo_html_title":"New Reportable Disease: C. Auris | College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-articles"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5167,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions\/5167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}