Alert Organism & Alert Conditions
Note: Diseases marked in RED are notifiable to PHA under PHA Act 1967
Bacteria, Protozoa and Spirochetes
- Acute encephalitis/ meningitis− bacterial
- Anthrax
- Covid-19
- Cholera
- Diphtheria
- Diarrhoea and/or vomiting
- Diarrhoea with blood, e.g. dysentery
- Exanthemata
- Food Poisoning
- Mumps*
- Gastroenteritis (persons under 2 years of age only)
- Legionnaire’s Disease
- Leptospirosis
- Malaria
- Meningococcal septicaemia
- Ophthalmia neonatorum
- Paratyphoid fever
- Plague
- Pyrexia of unknown origin
- Relapsing fever
- Scarlet Fever
- Scabies
- Severe cellulitis, e.g. necrotizing fasciitis
- Surgical site infections
- Tetanus
- Tuberculosis: pulmonary and non-pulmonary
- Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers*
- Tuberculosis: pulmonary and non-pulmonary
- Typhus
- Whooping cough*
- Multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacilli (i.e. ESBL, CRE)
- Multidrug-resistant Gram-positive (MRSA, PRP, GRE/VRE),
- aureusPVL
- pyogenes(Group A Streptococcus)
- agalactiae(Group B Streptococcus)
- Pathogenic Neisseria
- Clostridioides difficile Salmonella
- Shigella
- Escherichia coli0157
- Any unusual bacteria, e.g. Legionella
Viruses
- Acute encephalitis/meningitis− viral
- Chickenpox/varicella zoster
- Influenza virus
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatitis unspecified: viral
- Herpes simplex
- Measles
- MERS-CoV
- Mumps
- Monkeypox
- Norovirus and other small round structured virus
- Parvovirus
- Poliomyelitis: acute
- Rabies
- Rotavirus
- Respiratory syncytial virus
- Rubella
- Smallpox
- SARS-CoV-1 & 2
- Viral haemorrhagic fevers (Ebola, Lassa fever, Marburg, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, etc.)
- Yellow fever
ESBL: Extended-spectrum β lactamase; CRE: Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae; GRE/VRE: Glycopeptide/vancomycin-resistant enterococci; MERS-CoV: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus; PRP: Penicillin-resistant Strep. pneumoniae; PVL:Panton-Valentine leucocidin; SARS-CoV: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus