Category 1 notifiable medical conditions that require immediate reporting by the most rapid

means available upon diagnosis followed by a written or electronic notification to the

Department of Health within 24 hours of diagnosis by healthcare providers as well as private

and public health laboratories.

Notifiable medical condition

1

Acute flaccid paralysis

2

Acute rheumatic fever

3

Anthrax

4

Botulism

5

Cholera

6

Diphtheria

7

Enteric fever (typhoid or paratyphoid fever)

8

Food borne disease outbreak

9

Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)

10

Listeriosis

11

Malaria

12

Measles

13

Meningococcal disease

14

Pertussis

15

Plague

16

Poliomyelitis

17

Rabies (human)

18

Respiratory disease caused by a novel respiratory pathogen*

19

Rift valley fever (human)

20

Smallpox

21

Viral haemorrhagic fever diseases**

22

Yellow fever

 

* Viral haemorrhagic fever diseases: Ebola or Marburg viruses, Lassa virus, Lujo virus, novel or new

world arena viruses, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever

** Examples of novel respiratory pathogens include novel influenza A virus, MERS coronavirus

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