Contact Info
Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control Division
651-201-5414
To determine if it is a potentially infectious death, use this checklist as a guide.
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Checklist of Antemortem and Postmortem Signs and Symptoms (PDF)
- Fever
- Acute encephalopathy or new onset seizures
- Acute flaccid paralysis or polyneuropathy
- New-onset jaundice
- Acute diarrhea
- New rash or soft tissue lesion
- Unexplained death
- Death of an individual <50 years of age where:
- the past medical history, circumstances, and scene investigation provide inadequate diagnostic insight to establish the cause of death, and
- investigators have been unable to identify one of the signs/symptoms listed above in the absence of a specific etiology.
- This category includes infants with a SIDS-like presentation.
- Death of an individual <50 years of age where: