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National Health Act, 2003 (Act No. 61 of 2003)

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Regulations relating to the Surveillance and the Control of Notifiable Medical Conditions, 2017

Annexures

Annexure A

Table 1 : List of category 1 notifiable medical conditions

 

Category 1 notifiable medical conditions that require immediate reporting by the most rapid means available upon diagnosis followed by a written or electronic notification to the Department of Health within 24 hours of diagnosis by health care providers, private health laboratories or public health laboratories.

 

Notifiable medical condition

1.

Acute flaccid paralysis

2.

Acute rheumatic fever

3.

Anthrax

4.

Botulism

5.

Cholera

6.

Diptheria

7.

Enteric fever (typhoid or parathyphoid fever)

8.

Food-borne disease outbreak*

9.

Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)

10.

Listeriosis

11.

Malaria

12.

Measles

13.

Meningococcal disease

14.

Pertussis

15.

Plague

16.

Poliomyelitis

17.

Rabies (human)

18.

Respiratory disease caused by a novel respiratory pathogen**

19.

Rift valley fever (human)

20.

Smallpox

21.

Viral haemorrhagic fever diseases***

22.

Yellow fever

 

* Food-borne disease outbreak is the occurrence of two or more cases of a similar food-borne disease resulting from the ingestion of a common food.
** Examples of novel respiratory pathogens include novel influenza A virus and MERS coronavirus.
*** Viral haemorrhagic fever diseases include Ebola or Marburg viruses, Lassa virus, Lujo virus, new world arena viruses, Crimean -Congo haemorrhagic fever or other newly identified viruses causing haemorrhagic fever.