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Notifiable diseases

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Diseases you must report

You must report any suspected case of a notifiable disease.

Notifiable disease

Whether likely to be routine or urgent is noted after each disease entry.

  • Acute encephalitis - Routine
  • Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) or Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) - Urgent
  • Acute infectious hepatitis (A/B/C) - Urgent
  • Acute meningitis - Urgent
  • Acute poliomyelitis - Urgent
  • Anthrax - Urgent
  • Botulism - Urgent
  • Brucellosis - Routine. Urgent if acquired in UK.
  • Chickenpox (varicella) - Routine
  • Cholera - Urgent
  • Congenital syphilis - Routine
  • COVID-19 - Routine
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) - Routine
  • Disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI) - Routine
  • Diphtheria Urgent Enteric fever (typhoid or paratyphoid fever) - Urgent
  • Food poisoning - Routine. Urgent if part of a cluster or outbreak
  • Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) - Urgent
  • Infectious bloody diarrhoea - Urgent
  • Influenza of zoonotic origin - Urgent
  • Invasive group A streptococcal disease - Urgent
  • Legionnaires’ disease - Urgent
  • Leprosy - Routine
  • Malaria - Routine. Urgent if acquired in UK.
  • Measles - Urgent
  • Meningococcal septicaemia - Urgent
  • Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) - Urgent
  • Mpox (previously known as monkeypox) - Urgent
  • Mumps - Routine
  • Neonatal herpes - Routine
  • Plague - Urgent
  • Rabies - Urgent
  • Rubella - Routine
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) - Urgent
  • Scarlet fever - Routine
  • Smallpox - Urgent
  • Tetanus - Routine. Urgent if associated with injecting drug use.
  • Tuberculosis - Routine. Urgent if healthcare worker, or suspected cluster or multi-drug resistant.
  • Typhus - Routine
  • Viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF) - Urgent
  • Whooping cough - Urgent if diagnosed in acute phase. Routine in later diagnosis.
  • Yellow fever - Routine. Urgent if acquired in UK.

Reference:

  • (1) UK Health Security Agency (April 2025). Notifiable diseases and how to report them.

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