Diseases of Public Health Significance

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  • Anthrax
  • Botulism
  • Brucellosis
  • Cholera
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, all types
  • Diseases caused by a novel coronavirus, including Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and COVID-19 (only those that in high-risk settings)
  • Diphtheria
  • Group A Streptococcal disease, invasive
  • Haemophilus influenzae disease, all types, invasive
  • Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
  • Hemorrhagic fevers – Ebola, Marburg, other
  • Lassa fever
  • Measles
  • Meningitis, acute – bacterial
  • Meningococcal disease, invasive
  • Plague
  • Poliomyelitis, acute
  • Q fever
  • Rabies
  • Smallpox
  • Mpox
  • Acute flaccid paralysis
  • Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) outbreaks in public hospitals
  • Cryptosporidiosis
  • Cyclosporiasis
  • Encephalitis – primary, viral
  • Food poisoning, all causes
  • Gastroenteritis, institutional outbreaks
  • Giardiasis, except asymptomatic cases
  • Hepatitis A, viral
  • Hepatitis B, viral
  • Legionellosis
  • Listeriosis
  • Meningitis, acute – viral, other
  • Mumps
  • Paralytic shellfish poisoning
  • Paratyphoid fever
  • Pertussis (whooping cough)
  • Respiratory infection outbreaks in institutions
  • Rubella
  • Salmonellosis
  • Shigellosis
  • Tularemia
  • Typhoid fever
  • Verotoxin-producing E. coli infection, including Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (HUS)
  • Yersiniosis
  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
  • Amebiasis
  • Blastomycosis
  • Campylobacter enteritis
  • Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE), infection or colonization
  • Chancroid
  • Chickenpox (varicella)
  • Chlamydia trachomatis infections
  • Echinococcus multilocularis infection
  • Encephalitis – post-infectious
  • Encephalitis – vaccine-related
  • Encephalitis – subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
  • Encephalitis – unspecified
  • Gonorrhea
  • Group B Streptococcal disease, neonatal
  • Hepatitis C, viral
  • Influenza
  • Leprosy
  • Lyme Disease
  • Ophthalmia neonatorum
  • Pneumococcal disease, invasive
  • Psittacosis/ Ornithosis
  • Rubella, congenital syndrome
  • Syphilis
  • Tetanus
  • Trichinosis
  • Tuberculosis
  • West Nile Virus Illness
  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
  • Acute Flaccid Paralysis
  • Amebiasis
  • Anthrax
  • Blastomycosis
  • Botulism
  • Brucellosis
  • Campylobacter enteritis
  • Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE), infection or colonization
  • Chancroid
  • Chickenpox (Varicella)
  • Chlamydia trachomatis infections
  • Cholera
  • Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) outbreaks in public hospitals
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
  • Cryptosporidiosis
  • Cyclosporiasis
  • Diphtheria
  • Diseases caused by a novel coronavirus, including Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and COVID-19 (only those that work in high-risk settings)
  • Echinococcus multilocularis infection
  • Encephalitis, including,
    • i. Primary, viral
    • ii. Post-infectious
    • iii. Vaccine-related
    • iv. Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
    • v. Unspecified
  • Food poisoning, all causes
  • Gastroenteritis, institutional outbreaks
  • Giardiasis, except asymptomatic cases
  • Gonorrhoea
  • Group A Streptococcal disease, invasive
  • Group B Streptococcal disease, neonatal
  • Haemophilus influenza disease, all types, invasive
  • Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
  • Hemorrhagic fevers, including,
    • i. Ebola virus disease
    • ii. Marburg virus disease
    • iii. Other viral causes
  • Hepatitis A, viral
  • Hepatitis B, viral
  • Hepatitis C, viral
  • Influenza
  • Lassa Fever
  • Legionellosis
  • Leprosy
  • Listeriosis
  • Lyme Disease
  • Measles
  • Meningitis, acute,
    • i. bacterial
    • ii. viral
    • iii. other
  • Meningococcal disease, invasive
  • Mpox
  • Mumps
  • Ophthalmia neonatorum
  • Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning
  • Paratyphoid Fever
  • Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
  • Plague
  • Pneumococcal disease, invasive
  • Poliomyelitis, acute
  • Psittacosis/Ornithosis
  • Q Fever
  • Rabies
  • Respiratory infection outbreaks in institutions
  • Rubella
  • Rubella, congenital syndrome
  • Salmonellosis
  • Shigellosis
  • Smallpox
  • Syphilis
  • Tetanus
  • Trichinosis
  • Tuberculosis
  • Tularemia
  • Typhoid Fever
  • Verotoxin-producing E. coli infection, including Haemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS)
  • West Nile Virus Illness
  • Yersiniosis