Notifiable disease

Question 1

List the notifiable diseases

Answer 1

• Acute infectious hepatitis
• Acute meningitis
• Acute poliomyelitis
• Cholera
• COVID-19
• Diphtheria
• Enteric fever (typhoid or paratyphoid fever)
• Food poisoning
• Infectious bloodydiarrhoea
• Leprosy
• Malaria
• Measles
• Monkeypox
• Mumps
• Plague
• Rabies
• Rubella
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
• Scarlet fever
• Smallpox
• Tetanus
• Tuberculosis
• Typhus
  -Viralhaemorrhagicfever (VHF)
• Whooping cough
• Yellow fever

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Question 2

Explain the process of notification

Answer 2

• Registered medicalpractitioners
  have duty to notify ‘proper office’ at their local council or local health protection team of suspected cases of above diseases.
• Complete notification form immediately on diagnosis of suspected notifiable disease.
• Don’t wait for laboratory confirmation of suspected infection.
• Send form to proper office w/in 3 days, or notify them verbally w/in 24 hours by phone, email or letter (if urgent).
• All proper offices must pass notification to Public Health England (PHE) w/in 3 days of case being notified, or w/in 24 hours for urgent cases.

Question 3

What happens after a notification has been made?

Answer 3

Health Security Agency undertakes joint risk assessment, taking into consideration:

• Contact tracing
• Immunization history
• Epidemiological linked cases
• Factorsthat make contacts more vulnerable
• Potential sources of infection
• Wider public context.

Question 4

Outcome of notification?

Answer 4

HSA do following:
- isolation
- exclusion
- post-exposure
- prophylaxis
- immunisation
- further lab testing
- control measures.