Health Promotion Board, Singapore: Lists of Notifiable Diseases Under the Infectious Diseases Act

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Feb 14
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Health Promotion Board, Singapore: Lists of Notifiable Diseases Under the Infectious Diseases Act

To prevent such a scenario from happening, one measure taken by some countries is to mandate certain infectious diseases as notifiable by law. Typically, such infectious diseases are easily transmittable among humans. Not wanting to take any threat to public health lightly, the world has been implementing the International Health Regulations. This set of regulations, implemented since 15 June 2007, is a legally-binding agreement that provides a new framework for countries to address public health threats.

Table 1: Notifiable Diseases Under the Infectious Diseases Act
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Avian Influenza Campylobacteriosis Chikungunya Fever Cholera Dengue fever Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever Diphtheria Encephalitis, Viral Haemophilus Influenzae Type b (Hib) Disease Hand, Foot and Mouth disease Hepatitis, Viral Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection (Non-AIDS) Legionellosis Leprosy Malaria Measles Melioidosis Meningococcal Disease Mumps	Nipah Virus Infection Paratyphoid Pertussis Plague Pneumococcal Disease (Invasive) Poliomyelitis Rubella Salmonellosis Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Sexually Transmitted Infections – Chlamydia Genital Infection; Genital Herpes; Gonorrhoea; Non-Gonococcal Urethritis; and Syphilis. Typhoid Tuberculosis Yellow Fever

Table 2: Other Notifiable Diseases Captured by MOH for Surveillance
Campylobacter enteritis infection Cryptococcus neoformans infection Escherichia coli (serotype O157:H7) infection Food poisoning Hantavirus infection	Leptospirosis Listeria monocytogenes infection Shigellosis Typhus