Measles added to National Notifiable Disease Hub
Measles data have now been added to the National Notifiable Disease Hub, these included confirmed, probable and possible cases.
With the addition of measles, the data hub now offers interactive access to the latest statistics for 80 notifiable infectious diseases in Ireland. It also makes it easy to explore the data over a five year period.
The case classification module on the Hub displays the breakdown of measles notifications by confirmed, probable and possible.
Notifiable Disease
Measles is a notifiable disease in Ireland under the Infectious Diseases Regulations 1981. A medical practitioner or a clinical director of a diagnostic laboratory, on suspecting or identifying a case of the infection, is obliged to notify cases to the Medical Officer of Health (Consultant or Specialist in Public Health Medicine) for the area of residence of the patient.
Additionally, measles is on the list of infectious diseases requiring immediate preliminary notification by telephone to a Medical Officer of Health. This legislative requirement means that medical practitioners should urgently notify suspected clinical cases of measles to enable immediate control measures to be put in place.