notifiable disease


notifiable

 [no″tĭ-fi´ah-b'l] necessary to be reported to the board of health.notifiable disease one required to be reported to federal, state, or local health officials when diagnosed, because of infectiousness, severity, or frequency of occurrence.

no·ti·fi·a·ble dis·ease

a disease that, by statutory requirements, must be reported to the public health or veterinary authorities when the diagnosis is made because of its importance to human or animal health. Synonym(s): reportable disease

notifiable disease

(nō′tə-fī′ə-bəl)n. A disease that must be reported to public health authorities at the time it is diagnosed because of the danger it poses to human or animal health.

notifiable disease

As defined in the UK, a disease with significant public health implications, typically a highly infectious disease, for which the diagnosing clinician has a statutory responsibility to notify the correct body or person—e.g., the local Consultant in Communicable Disease.
Notifiable disease, UK
• Acute encephalitis
• Acute meningitis
• Acute poliomyelitis
• Acute infectious hepatitis
• Anthrax
• Botulism
• Brucellosis
• Cholera
• Diphtheria
• Enteric fever (typhoid or paratyphoid fever)
• Food poisoning
• Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)
• Infectious bloody diarrhoea
• Invasive group-A streptococcal disease and scarlet fever
• Legionnaires’ Disease
• Leprosy
• Malaria
• Measles
• Meningococcal septicaemia
• Mumps
• Plague
• Rabies
• Rubella
• SARS
• Smallpox
• Tetanus
• Tuberculosis
• Typhus
• Viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF)
• Whooping cough
• Yellow fever
As of 2010, the Health Protection Agency no longer requires notifies the following diseases: dysentery, ophthalmia neonatorum, leptospirosis and relapsing fever.

notifiable disease

Public health A disease, usually an infection, the occurrence of which must, by law, be reported to a local health officer or government authority, given the local, state, or federal interest in maintaining the disease under surveillance in order to control and prevent its dissemination. See Reportable occupational diseases.

no·ti·fi·a·ble dis·ease

(nōti-fīă-bĕl di-zēz) A disease that, by statutory requirements, must be reported to public health or veterinary authorities or to law enforcement agencies.
Synonym(s): reportable disease.

notifiable disease

Any disease, especially a communicable condition, required by law to be reported to a central medical authority by the doctor who diagnoses it.

no·ti·fi·a·ble dis·ease

(nōti-fīă-bĕl di-zēz) Disease that, by statutory requirements, must be reported to the public health or veterinary authorities when the diagnosis is made because of its importance to human or animal health.
Synonym(s): reportable disease.