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Notifiable Disease List

  • = NNDSS keeps track of the following nationally notifiable diseases.
  • Bloodborne diseases
    • Hepatitis B (newly acquired and unspecified)
    • Hepatitis C (newly acquired and unspecified)
    • Hepatitis D
  • Gastrointestinal diseases
    • Botulism
    • Campylobacteriosis
    • Cholera
    • Cryptosporidiosis
    • Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)
    • Hepatitis A
    • Hepatitis E
    • Listeriosis
    • Paratyphoid fever
    • Salmonellosis
    • Shiga toxin-producing E. Coli (STEC) or Verotoxin-producing E. Coli (VTEC)
    • Shigellosis
    • Typhoid fever
  • Listed human diseases
    • Listed human diseases are those listed in the Biosecurity (Listed Human Diseases) Determination 2016. Human influenza with pandemic potential is a listed human disease, but is nationally notifiable under ‘influenza (laboratory confirmed)’.
    • Avian influenza in humans (AIH)
    • Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
    • Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS)
    • Plague
    • Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
    • Smallpox
    • Viral haemorrhagic fever (NEC)
    • Yellow fever
  • Sexually transmissible infections
    • Chlamydia
    • Donovanosis
    • Gonococcal infection
    • Syphilis (congenital, less than 2 years duration, or more than 2 years or unspecified duration)
  • Vaccine preventable diseases
    • Diphtheria
    • Haemophilus influenzae type b
    • Measles
    • Meningococcal disease – invasive
    • Mumps
    • Pneumococcal disease (invasive)
    • Poliovirus infection
    • Rotavirus
    • Rubella (including congenital rubella)
    • Tetanus
    • Varicella zoster infection (including chickenpox, shingles and unspecified Varicella zoster infection)
  • Respiratory diseases
    • Influenza (laboratory confirmed)
    • Legionellosis
    • Pertussis
    • Respiratory syncytial virus infection (RSV)
    • Tuberculosis
  • Vectorborne diseases
    • Barmah Forest virus infection
    • Chikungunya virus infection
    • Dengue virus infection
    • Flavivirus infection (unspecified)
    • Japanese encephalitis virus infection
    • Malaria
    • Murray Valley encephalitis virus infection
    • Ross River virus infection
    • West Nile/Kunjin virus infection
  • Zoonoses
    • Anthrax
    • Australian bat lyssavirus infection
    • Brucellosis
    • Leptospirosis
    • Lyssavirus infection (not elsewhere classified)
    • Monkeypox virus (MPXV) infection
    • Psittacosis (also known as ornithosis)
    • Q fever
    • Rabies
    • Tularaemia
  • Other notifiable diseases
    • Group A Streptococcal disease – invasive (iGAS)
    • Hepatitis (not elsewhere classified)
    • Leprosy
    • Diseases under national surveillance by other organisations 
  • The Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry and the Kirby Institute are also monitoring:
    • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
    • Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD)
    • Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

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