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

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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 –
    1. Chlamydia Genital Infection;
    2. Genital Herpes;
    3. Gonorrhoea;
    4. Non-Gonococcal Urethritis; and
    5. 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

Source: Preventing and Controlling Public Health Threats (http://www.hpb.gov.sg/HOPPortal/health-article/476)

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