List of notifiable diseases

The following is a list of notifiable diseases arranged by country.

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Australia

Source:^[1]

• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
• Anthrax
• Arbovirus infections:
  • Barmah Forest
  • Dengue fever
  • Japanese encephalitis
  • Kunjin virus
  • Murray Valley encephalitis virus
  • Ross River virus
• Botulism
• Brucellosis
• Campylobacteriosis
• Chlamydia
• Cholera
• Cryptosporidiosis
• Diphtheria
• Donovanosis
• Gonococcal infection
• Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)
• Haemophilus influenzae serotype b (Hib)
• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B
• Hepatitis C
• Hepatitis D
• Hepatitis E
• Hepatitis
• Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
• Influenza
• Legionellosis
• Leprosy
• Leptospirosis
• Listeriosis
• Lyssavirus
• Malaria
• Measles
• Meningococcal disease
• Mumps
• Psittacosis
• Pertussis
• Plague
• Poliomyelitis
• Pneumococcal disease
• Q fever
• Rubella
• Salmonellosis
• Shigellosis
• Shiga toxin- and verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC/VTEC)
• Smallpox
• Syphilis
• Tetanus
• Tuberculosis
• Tularemia
• Typhoid fever
• Yellow fever

Malaysia

Source:^[2]

• Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
• Cholera
• Dengue fever
• Diphtheria
• Dysentery
• Ebola
• Encephalitis
• Food poisoning
• Gonococcal infection
• Gonorrhea
• Hepatitis
• Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
• Leprosy
• Malaria
• Measles
• Paratyphoid fever
• Pertussis
• Plague
• Poliomyelitis
• Rabies
• Relapsing fever
• Rickettsiosis
• Syphilis
• Tetanus
• Tuberculosis
• Typhoid fever
• Typhus
• Whooping cough
• Yellow fever

Other life threatening infectious diseases.

United Kingdom

Source:^[3]

• Anthrax
• Cholera
• Diphtheria
• Dysentery
• Encephalitis
• Hepatitis
• Leprosy
• Leptospirosis
• Malaria
• Measles
• Meningitis
• Meningoccal septicaemia
• Mumps
• Ophthalmia neonatorum
• Paratyphoid fever
• Plague
• Poliomyelitis
• Rabies
• Relapsing fever
• Rubella
• Scarlet fever
• Smallpox
• Tetanus
• Tuberculosis
• Typhoid fever
• Typhus
• Viral haemorrhagic fever, including Lassa fever and Marburg virus
• Whooping cough
• Yellow fever

United States

Notifiable diseases

Source:^[4]

• Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
• Anthrax
• Botulism
• Chancroid
• Chlamydia trachomatis
• Cholera
• Coccidioidomycosis
• Cryptosporidiosis
• Cyclospora
• Diphtheria
• California encephalitis virus
• Eastern equine encephalitis
• St. Louis encephalitis
• Western equine encephalitis
• Ehrlichiosis
• Escherichia coli O157:H7
• Giardiasis
• Gonorrhea
• Haemophilus influenzae
• Hansen's disease (Leprosy)
• Hantavirus
• Hemolytic uremic syndrome
• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B
• Hepatitis, C/non-A, non-B
• HIV infection
• Legionellosis
• Listeriosis
• Lyme disease
• Malaria
• Measles
• Meningococcal disease
• Mumps
• Pertussis
• Plague (bubonic, septicemic, pneumonic and pharyngeal)
• Poliomyelitis, paralytic
• Psittacosis
• Q Fever
• Rabies
• Rocky Mountain spotted fever
• Rubella
• Rubella, congenital syndrome
• Salmonellosis
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
• Shigellosis
• Smallpox
• Group A Streptococcal disease
• Streptococcus pneumoniae
• Syphilis
• Syphilis, congenital
• Tetanus
• Toxic shock syndrome (Streptococcal and other than Streptococcal)
• Trichinosis
• Tuberculosis
• Tularemia
• Typhoid fever
• West Nile virus
• Vancomycin
• Varicella (deaths only)
• Yellow fever

Not notifiable, but recommended for surveillance

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• Amebiasis
• Aseptic meningitis
• Bacterial meningitis
• Campylobacter infection
• Dengue fever
• Genital herpes
• Genital warts
• Giardiasis
• Granuloma inguinale
• Leptospirosis
• Lymphogranuloma venereum
• Mucopurulent cervicitis
• Nongonococcal urethritis
• Pelvic inflammatory disease
• Rheumatic fever
• Varicella (chickenpox)

References

1. ^ Australia: Australian national notifiable diseases list and case definitions
2. ^ Malaysia: Primary Care Doctors Organization Malaysia
3. ^ UK: List of Notifiable Diseases
4. ^ USA: Nationally Notifiable Infectious Diseases from CDC (public domain resource)