List of notifiable diseases

United States 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:

• Amebiasis[?]
• Aseptic meningitis[?]
• Bacterial meningitis, other[?]
• Campylobacter infection[?]
• Cyclospora infection[?]
• Dengue fever
• Ehrlichiosis
• Genital herpes (herpes simplex virus)[?]
• Genital warts
• Giardiasis[?]
• Granuloma inguinale[?]
• Leptospirosis[?]
• Listeriosis[?]
• Lymphogranuloma venereum
• Mucopurulent cervicitis[?]
• Nongonococcal urethritis[?]
• Pelvic inflammatory disease
• Rheumatic fever[?]
• Tularemia[?]
• Varicella (chickenpox)

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

United Kingdom

• 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