Notifiable diseases in the United Kingdom

Diseases which must be reported to British authorities

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

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Further information: notifiable disease

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

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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

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* UK statutory notification system

## References

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1. ^ The Health Protection (Notification) (Wales) Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/1546)
2. ^ "Notifiable diseases and causative organisms: how to report". GOV.UK. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
3. ^ Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008/
4. ^ {https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/659/contents The Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/659).]

## External links

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* Procedure for notification of diseases

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