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 condition that requires immediate reporting by the most rapid means available upon clinical or laboratory 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.	Agricultural or stock remedy poisoning
4.	Anthrax
5.	Botulism
6.	Cholera
7.	Congenital rubella syndrome
8.	Diptheria
9.	Enteric fever (typhoid or parathyphoid fever)
10.	Food-borne disease outbreak*
11.	Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)
12.	Listeriosis
13.	Malaria
14.	Measles
15	Mercury poisoning
16.	Meningococcal disease
17	Monkeypox
18.	Pertussis
19.	Plague
20.	Poliomyelitis
21.	Rabies (human)
22.	Respiratory disease caused by a novel respiratory pathogen**
23	Rift valley fever (human)
24.	Rubella
25.	Smallpox
26.	Viral haemorrhagic fever diseases***
27.	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.

[Annexure A (Table 1) substituted by section 2 of Notice No. 6064, GG52391, dated 27 March 2025]