Diseases which must, by law, be reported to governmental authorities by medical practitioners are called notifiable diseases or reportable diseases.
United States
Notifiable diseases in the United States used to vary according to individual state's laws. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) also produced a list of nationally notifiable diseases which health officials should report to the CDC's National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS). A uniform criteria for disease reporting to the NNDSS was introduced in 1990.
- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
- Anthrax
- Botulism
- Brucellosis
- Chancroid
- Chlamydia trachomatis, genital infections
- Cholera
- Coccidioidomycosis
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Diphtheria
- Encephalitis, California serogroup
- Encephalitis, eastern equine
- Encephalitis, St. Louis
- Encephalitis, western equine
- Escherichia coli O157:H7
- Gonorrhea
- Haemophilus influenzae, invasive disease
- Hansen's disease (Leprosy)
- Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
- Hemolytic uremic syndrome, post-diarrheal
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis, C/non-A, non-B
- HIV infection, pediatric
- Legionellosis
- Lyme disease
- Malaria
- Measles
- Meningococcal disease
- Mumps
- Pertussis
- Plague
- Poliomyelitis, paralytic
- Psittacosis
- Rabies, animal
- Rabies, human
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever
- Rubella
- Rubella, congenital syndrome
- Salmonellosis
- Shigellosis
- Streptococcal disease, invasive Group A
- Streptococcus pneumoniae, drug-resistant invasive disease
- Streptococcal toxic-shock syndrome
- Syphilis
- Syphilis, congenital
- Tetanus
- Toxic-shock syndrome
- Trichinosis
- Tuberculosis
- Typhoid fever
- Yellow fever
Not notifiable, but recommended for surveillance:
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United Kingdom
Source: Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 and Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1988
Australia
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
- Anthrax
- Arbovirus infections:
- Barmah Forest virus
- Dengue virus
- Japanese encephalitis virus
- Kunjin virus
- Murray Valley encephalitis virus (notified as Australian arbo-encephalitis in Victoria)
- Ross River virus
- Flavivirus infection – unspecified or not otherwise classified
- Botulism
- Brucellosis
- Campylobacteriosis (not notified in New South Wales)
- Chlamydia
- Cholera
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Diphtheria
- Donovanosis
- Gonococcal infection
- Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)
- Haemophilus influenzae serotype b (Hib) (invasive only)
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B:
- newly acquired
- unspecified
- Hepatitis C:
- newly acquired
- unspecified
- Hepatitis D
- Hepatitis E
- Hepatitis - Not otherwise specified (not notified in Western Australia)
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection:
- newly acquired
- unspecified individuals over 18 months of age
- individuals less than 18 months of age
- Influenza laboratory-confirmed
- Legionellosis
- Leprosy (Hansen's disease)
- Leptospirosis
- Listeriosis
- Lyssavirus:
- Australian bat lyssavirus
- Rabies
- Lyssavirus unspecified
- Malaria
- Measles
- Meningococcal disease (invasive)
- Mumps
- Psittacosis (Ornithosis)
- Pertussis (whooping cough)
- Plague
- Poliomyelitis – wild type and vaccine-associated
- Pneumococcal disease (invasive)
- Q fever
- Ross River fever (also known as Ross River virus infection or disease)
- Rubella and congenital rubella syndrome
- Salmonellosis
- Shigellosis
- Shiga toxin- and verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC/VTEC)
- Smallpox
- Syphilis:
- Infectious (primary, secondary and early latent) less than 2 years duration
- More than 2 years or unknown duration
- Congenital syphilis
- Tetanus
- Tuberculosis
- Tularemia
- Typhoid fever
- Viral haemorrhagic fevers (quarantinable)
- Yellow fever
Source: Australian National Notifiable Diseases at http://www.cda.gov.au/surveil/nndss/dislist.htm
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