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

Regulations

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

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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.