notifiable diseases
Last reviewed 01/2018
The following diseases are notifiable (to Local Authority Proper Officers) under the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010:
- acute encephalitis
- acute meningitis
- acute poliomyelitis
- acute infectious hepatitis
- anthrax
- botulism
- brucellosis
- cholera
- diphtheria
- enteric fever (typhoid or paratyphoid fever)
- food poisoning
- haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)
- infectious bloody diarrhoea
- invasive group A streptococcal disease and scarlet fever
- legionnaires’ Disease
- leprosy
- malaria
- measles
- meningococcal septicaemia
- mumps
- plague
- rabies
- rubella
- SARS
- smallpox
- tetanus
- tuberculosis
- typhus
- viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF)
- whooping cough
- yellow fever
As of April 2010, it is no longer a requirement to notify the following diseases
- dysentery
- ophthalmia neonatorum
- leptospirosis
- relapsing fever
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