Notifiable diseases in the United Kingdom
A notifiable disease is one which the law requires to be reported to government authorities.
In England and Wales, notification of infectious diseases is a statutory duty for registered medical practitioners and laboratories, under the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 and (in England) the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010. Similar provision, albeit with a different list of diseases, is made for Wales in the Health Protection (Notification) (Wales) Regulations 2010.[1]Medical practitioners are required to notify their local authority of diseases on the list in writing within three days, or if the situation is urgent, by telephone within 24 hours.[2] For Scotland, similar provision is made by the Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008.[3]
List of notifiable diseases
The diseases notifiable in England to local authorities under the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010 are:[4]
- Acute encephalitis
- Acute infectious hepatitis
- Acute poliomyelitis
- Anthrax
- Botulism
- Brucellosis
- Cholera
- COVID-19
- Diphtheria
- Enteric fever
- Food poisoning
- Hemolytic uremic syndrome
- Infectious bloody diarrhoea
- Invasive group A streptococcal disease
- Legionnaire's disease
- Leprosy
- Malaria
- Measles
- Meningococcal sepsis
- Mpox
- Mumps
- Plague
- Rabies
- Rubella
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
- Scarlet fever
- Smallpox
- Tetanus
- Tuberculosis
- Typhus
- Viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF)
- Whooping cough
- Yellow fever
List of notifiable organisms
The causative organisms which the laboratories shall notify to the proper authority under the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010 are:[citation needed]
- Bacillus anthracis
- Bacillus cereus (only if associated with food poisoning)
- Bordetella pertussis
- Borrelia spp
- Brucella spp
- Burkholderia mallei
- Burkholderia pseudomallei
- Campylobacter spp
- Chikungunya virus
- Chlamydophila psittaci
- Clostridium botulinum
- Clostridium perfringens (only if associated with food poisoning)
- Clostridium tetani
- Corynebacterium diphtheriae
- Corynebacterium ulcerans
- Coxiella burnetii
- Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus
- Cryptosporidium spp
- Dengue virus
- Ebola virus
- Entamoeba histolytica
- Francisella tularensis
- Giardia lamblia
- Guanarito virus
- Haemophilus influenzae (invasive)
- Hanta virus
- Hepatitis A, B, C, delta, and E viruses
- Influenza virus
- Junin virus
- Kyasanur Forest disease virus
- Lassa virus
- Legionella spp
- Leptospira interrogans
- Listeria monocytogenes
- Machupo virus
- Marburg virus
- Measles virus
- Mumps virus
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
- Neisseria meningitidis
- Omsk haemorrhagic fever virus
- Plasmodium falciparum, vivax, ovale, malariae, knowlesi
- Polio virus (wild or vaccine types)
- Rabies virus (classical rabies and rabies-related lyssaviruses)
- Rickettsia spp
- Rift Valley fever virus
- Rubella virus
- Sabia virus
- Salmonella spp
- SARS coronavirus
- Shigella spp
- Streptococcus pneumoniae (invasive)
- Streptococcus pyogenes (invasive)
- Varicella zoster virus
- Variola virus
- Verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli (including E. coli O157)
- Vibrio cholerae
- West Nile virus
- Yellow fever virus
- Yersinia pestis
See also
References
- ^ The Health Protection (Notification) (Wales) Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/1546)
- ^ "Notifiable diseases and causative organisms: how to report". GOV.UK. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
- ^ Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008/
- ^ {https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/659/contents The Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/659).]