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