Notifiable diseases Flashcards
1
Q
List of currently notifiable diseases?
A
- Acute encephalitis
- Acute infectious hepatitis
- Acute meningitis
- Acute poliomyelitis
- Anthrax
- Botulism
- Brucellosis
- Cholera
- COVID-19
- Diphtheria
- Enteric fever (typhoid or paratyphoid fever)
- Food poisoning
- Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)
- Infectious bloody diarrhoea
- Invasive group A streptococcal disease
- Legionnaires’ disease
- Leprosy
- Malaria
- Measles
- Meningococcal septicaemia
- Monkeypox
- Mumps
- Plague
- Rabies
- Rubella
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
- Scarlet fever
- Smallpox
- Tetanus
- Tuberculosis
- Typhus
- Viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF)
- Whooping cough
- Yellow fever
2
Q
What do we do if there’s a notifiable disease as a doctor?
A
The ‘Proper Officer’ at the Local Health Protection Team needs to be notified by the medical practitioner
They in turn will notify the Health Protection Agency on a weekly basis
3
Q
What is the guidance on when to notify about the disease?
A
‘immediately on diagnosis of a suspected notifiable disease’ and not to ‘wait for laboratory confirmation of a suspected infection or contamination before notification’
4
Q
What is a notable exception from this list?
A
HIV (due to historic reasons)
