Diseases which must, by law, be reported to governmental authorities by medical practitioners are called
notifiable diseases or
reportable diseases.
Notifiable diseases in the
United States used to vary according to individual state's laws. The
CDC and the
CSTE[?] also produced a list of nationally notifiable diseases which health officials should report to the CDC's National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS). A uniform criteria for disease reporting to the NNDSS was introduced in 1990.
- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
- Anthrax
- Botulism
- Brucellosis[?]
- Chancroid[?]
- Chlamydia trachomatis[?], genital infections
- Cholera
- Coccidioidomycosis
- Cryptosporidiosis[?]
- Diphtheria
- Encephalitis, California serogroup[?]
- Encephalitis, eastern equine[?]
- Encephalitis, St. Louis[?]
- Encephalitis, western equine[?]
- Escherichia coli O157:H7
- Gonorrhea
- Haemophilus influenzae, invasive disease[?]
- Hansen disease (leprosy)
- Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome[?]
- Hemolytic uremic syndrome, post-diarrheal[?]
- Hepatitis A[?]
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis, C/non-A, non-B[?]
- HIV infection, pediatric[?]
- Legionellosis
- Lyme disease
- Malaria
- Measles
- Meningococcal disease[?]
- Mumps
- Pertussis
- Plague
- Poliomyelitis, paralytic[?]
- Psittacosis
- Rabies, animal[?]
- Rabies, human[?]
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever
- Rubella
- Rubella, congenital syndrome[?]
- Salmonellosis[?]
- Shigellosis
- Streptococcal disease, invasive Group A[?]
- Streptococcus pneumoniae, drug-resistant invasive disease[?]
- Streptococcal toxic-shock syndrome[?]
- Syphilis
- Syphilis, congenital[?]
- Tetanus
- Toxic-shock syndrome[?]
- Trichinosis
- Tuberculosis
- Typhoid fever
- Yellow fever
Not notifiable, but recommended for surveillance:
Source: public domain resource CDC document "Case Definitions for Infectious Conditions Under Public Health Surveillance" ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Publications/mmwr/rr/rr4610.pdf
- Anthrax
- Cholera
- Diphtheria
- Dysentery
- Encephalitis, acute
- Food poisoning or suspected food poisoning
- Haemorrhagic fever, viral
- Hepatitis, viral
- Leptospirosis
- Malaria
- Meningitis
- Meningoccal septicaemia (without meningitis)
- Mumps
- Ophthalmia neonatorum
- Paratyphoid fever[?]
- Plague
- Poliomyelitis, acute
- Rabies
- Relapsing fever
- Rubella
- Scarlet fever
- Tetanus
- Tuberculosis (TB)
- Typhoid fever
- Typhus
- Whooping cough
- Yellow fever
Source: National Health Service web site at http://www.nhsatoz.org/pls/hfht/docs/FOLDER/HFH_CONTENT/ATOZ/NOTIFIABLE+DISEASES+AND+RIDDOR.HTM