The following communicable diseases must be notified to the Department of Health according to the notification requirements outlined in the sections Procedure for notification of communicable diseases (excluding HIV/AIDS) and Procedure for notification of HIV/AIDS .

Please note that the infectious diseases preceded by the  icon must be reported urgently by telephone to the Department of Health (that is, within a few hours of first suspicion of diagnosis).

In addition, food-borne illnesses (2 or more linked cases) and enteric infection (e.g. salmonella or campylobacter infection) in a food handler, health professional or child-care worker should also be reported urgently by phone.

The following list includes all communicable diseases (infectious and venereal) where reporting is specified under the legislation and regulations, as of July 2004.

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

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• Anthrax
• Arboviral encephalitis (includes Murray Valley, Kunjin and Japanese encephalitis viruses)

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• Barmah Forest Virus infection
• Botulism
• Brucellosis

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• Campylobacter infection
• Chancroid
• Chlamydia (genital infection)
• Cholera
• Creutzfeldt Jakob disease
• Cryptosporidiosis

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• Dengue fever
• Diphtheria
• Donovanosis (Granuloma inguinale)

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• Gonorrhoea

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• Haemolytic uraemic syndrome
• Haemophilus influenzae type b infection (invasive)
• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B
• Hepatitis C
• Hepatitis D
• Hepatitis E
• HIV/AIDS (use separate notification form)

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• Influenza

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• Legionella infection
• Leprosy
• Leptospirosis
• Listeriosis
• Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV)
• Lyssavirus infection (includes Rabies and Australian Bat Lyssavirus)

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• Malaria
• Measles
• Melioidosis
• Meningococcal infection
• Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection
• Mumps

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• Paratyphoid fever
• Pertussis
• Plague
• Pneumococcal infection (invasive)
• Poliomyelitis
• Psittacosis (ornithosis)

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• Q fever

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• Rheumatic fever (acute)
• Rickettsial infection (includes Typhus)
• Ross River Virus infection
• Rotavirus
• Rubella (congenital or non-congenital)

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• Salmonella infection
• Schistosomiasis (Bilharzia)
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
• Shiga toxin/Verotoxin producing E.coli (STEC/VTEC) infection
• Shigellosis (Bacillary dysentery)
• Smallpox
• Syphilis (all stages)

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• Tetanus
• Tuberculosis
• Tularaemia
• Typhoid fever
• Typhus (Rickettsial infection)

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• Varicella-zoster (chickenpox and shingles)
• Vibrio parahaemolyticus infection
• Viral haemorrhagic fevers (includes Crimean-Congo, Ebola, Lassa, Marburg viruses)

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• Yellow fever
• Yersinia infection

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Please go to the Procedure for notification of communicable diseases (excluding HIV/AIDS) and Procedure for notification of HIV/AIDS pages for details about how to notify a communicable disease to the Department of Health.