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List of notifiable diseases

Diseases notifiable (to Local Authority Proper Officers) under the Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1988:

  • Acute encephalitis
  • Acute poliomyelitis
  • Anthrax
  • Cholera
  • Diphtheria
  • Dysentery
  • Food poisoning
  • Leptospirosis
  • Malaria
  • Measles
  • Meningitis
    meningococcal
    pneumococcal
    haemophilus influenzae
    viral
    other specified
    unspecified
  • Meningococcal septicaemia (without meningitis)
  • Mumps
  • Ophthalmia neonatorum
  • Paratyphoid fever
  • Plague
  • Rabies
  • Relapsing fever
  • Rubella
  • Scarlet fever
  • Smallpox
  • Tetanus
  • Tuberculosis
  • Typhoid fever
  • Typhus fever
  • Viral haemorrhagic fever
  • Viral hepatitis
    Hepatitis A
    Hepatitis B
    Hepatitis C
    other
  • Whooping cough
  • Yellow fever

Leprosy is also notifiable, Click here to find further information about notifying Leprosy.