Public Health etc Act Scotland 2008
There are notifiable diseases and notifiable organisms:
Notifiable diseases
- Clinical syndrome due to E.coli O157 infection
- Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (HUS)
- Necrotizing fasciitis
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
- (plus infections caused by organisms below)
Notifiable organisms
- Bacillus anthracis (anthrax)
- Bacillus cereus
- Bordetella pertussis
- Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme disease)
- Brucella genus
- Campylobacter genus
- Chlamydia psittaci
- Clostridium botulinum (Botulism)
- Clostridium difficile
- Clostridium perfringens
- Clostridium tetani
- Corynebacterium diphtheriae (toxigenic strains)
- Corynebacterium ulcerans
- Coxiella burnetii
- Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus
- Cryptosporidium
- Dengue virus
- Ebola virus
- Echinococcus genus
- Verocytotoxin-producing E.coli (VTEC)
- Francisella tularensis
- Giardia lamblia
- Guanarito virus
- Haemophilus influenzae type b (from blood, cerebrospinal fluid or other normally sterile site)
- Hantavirus
- Hepatitis A-E virus
- Influenza virus (all types, including those caused by a new sub-type)
- JunÃn virus
- Kyasanur Forest disease virus
- Lassa virus
- Legionella genus
- Leptospira genus
- Listeria monocytogenes
- Machupo virus
- Marburg virus
- Measles virus
- Mumps virus
- Mycobacterium bovis
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
- Neisseria meningitidis
- Norovirus
- Omsk haemorrhagic fever virus
- Plasmodium falciparum, vivax, ovale and malariae (malaria)
- Polio virus
- Rabies virus
- Rickettsia prowazekii
- Rift Valley fever virus
- Rubella virus
- Sabia virus
- Salmonella (all human types)
- SARS-associated coronavirus
- Shigella genus
- Enterotoxigenic Staphylococcus aureus
- Staphylococcus aureus (all blood isolates)
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
- Streptococcus pyogenes (from blood, cerebrospinal fluid or other normally sterile site)
- Streptococcus pneumoniae (from blood, cerebrospinal fluid or other normally sterile site)
- Toxoplasma gondii
- Trichinella genus
- Varicella-zoster virus
- Variola virus
- Vibrio cholerae
- West Nile fever virus
- Yellow Fever virus
- Yersinia enterocolitica
- Yersinia pestis
- Yersinia pseudotuberculosis