Notifiable diseases

See also: Notifiable organisms (causative agents)

This is a list of notifiable diseases in the UK.
The 'Proper Officer' at the Local Health Protection Team needs to be notified of these diagnoses. They should then notify the Health Protection Agency about these diagnoses.

• Acute encephalitis
• Acute infectious hepatitis
• Acute meningitis
• Acute poliomyelitis
• Anthrax
• Botulism
• Brucellosis
• Cholera morbus
• Diphtheria
• Dysentry
• Food poisoning
• Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)
• Invasive group A streptococcal disease
• Legionellosis
• Leprosy
• Malaria
• Measles
• Meningococcal septicaemia
• Mumps
• Plague
• Rabies
• Rubella
• Salmonellosis
• SARS
• Scarlet fever
• Smallpox
• Tetanus
• Tuberculosis
• Typhus
• Viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF)
• Whooping cough
• Yellow fever

There are some diseases which are commonly expected to be notifiable, but in reality they are not notifiable. Including:

• HIV