Current List of Notifiable Diseases
Acute anterior poliomyelitis (Polio virus)
Acute infectious gastroenteritis *
Ano-genital warts
Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)
Bacillus cereus food-borne infection/intoxication (B. cereus)
Bacterial meningitis (not otherwise specified)
Botulism (Clostridium botulinum)
Brucellosis (Brucella sp.)
Campylobacter infection (Campylobacter sp.)
Chancroid (Haemophilus ducreyi)
Chlamydia trachomatis infection (genital) (C. trachomatis)
Cholera (Vibrio cholerae)
Clostridium perfringens (type A) food-borne disease (C. perfringens)
Creutzfeldt Jakob disease
nv Creutzfeldt Jakob disease
Cryptosporidiosis (Cryptosporidium parvum)
Diphtheria (Corynebacterium diphtheriae)
Echinococcosis (Echinococcus sp.)
Enterococcal bacteraemia (Enterococcus sp. (blood))
Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (E. coli of serogroup known to be toxin producing)
Escherichia coli infection (invasive) (E. coli (blood, CSF))
Giardiasis (Giardia lamblia)
Gonorrhoea (Neisseria gonorrhoeae)
Granuloma inguinale
Haemophilus influenzae disease (invasive) (H. influenzae (blood, CSF or other normally sterile site))
Hepatitis A (acute) (Hepatitis A virus)
Hepatitis B (acute and chronic) (Hepatitis B virus)
Hepatitis C (Hepatitis C virus)
Herpes simplex (genital) (Herpes simplex virus)
Influenza (Influenza A and B virus)
Legionellosis (Legionella sp.)
Leptospirosis (Leptospira sp.)
Listeriosis (Listeria monocytogenes)
Lymphogranuloma venereum
Malaria (Plasmodium falciparum, vivax, ovale, malariae)
Measles (Measles virus)
Meningococcal disease (Neisseria meningitidis)
Mumps (Mumps virus)
Non-specific urethritis
Noroviral infection (Norovirus)
Paratyphoid (Salmonella paratyphi)
Pertussis (Bordetella pertussis)
Plague (Yersinia pestis)
Q Fever (Coxiella burnetii)
Rabies (Rabies virus)
Rubella (Rubella virus)
Salmonellosis (Salmonella enterica)
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-associated coronavirus)
Shigellosis (Shigella sp.)
Smallpox (Variola virus)
Staphylococcal food poisoning (Enterotoxigenic Staphylococcus aureus)
Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (S. aureus (blood))
Streptococcus group A infection (invasive) (S. pyogenes (blood, CSF or other normally sterile site))
Streptococcus pneumoniae infection (invasive) (S. pneumoniae (blood, CSF or other normally sterile site))
Syphilis (Treponema pallidum)
Tetanus (Clostridium tetani)
Toxoplasmosis (Toxoplasma gondii)
Trichinosis (Trichinella sp.)
Trichomoniasis (Trichomonas vaginalis)
Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex)
Tularemia (Francisella tularensis)
Typhoid (Salmonella typhi)
Typhus (Rickettsia prowazekii)
Viral encephalitis
Viral meningitis
Viral haemorrhagic fevers (Lassa virus, Marburg virus, Ebola virus, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus)
Yellow Fever (Yellow Fever virus)
Yersiniosis (Yersinia enterocolitica, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis)
*See Case Definition booklet
As agreed with the Department of Health and Children in April 2008, Clostridium difficile became notifiable under acute infectious gastroenteritis (AIG) from 4th May 2008. Therefore, under this disease category C. difficile, rotavirus and AIG of unknown aetiology are now notifiable.
Infectious Disease Notification List 