National Health Act, 2003 (Act No. 61 of 2003)RegulationsRegulations relating to the Surveillance and the Control of Notifiable Medical Conditions, 2017AnnexuresAnnexure ATable 1 : List of category 1 notifiable medical conditions |
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]