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It is a statutory obligation that a medical practitioner must report a notifiable disease to the Consultant responsible for Communicable Disease Control. See Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 Notifiable diseases include: - acute encephalitis
- acute poliomyelitis
- anthrax
- cholera
- diphtheria
- dysentery - amoebic or bacillary
- food poisoning
- leprosy
- leptospirosis
- malaria
- measles
- meningitis
- meningococcal septicaemia (without meningitis)
- mumps
- ophthalmia neonatorum
- paratyphoid fever
- plague
- rabies
- relapsing fever
- rubella
- scarlet fever
- smallpox
- tetanus
- tuberculosis
- typhoid fever
- typhus
- viral haemorrhagic fever
- viral hepatitis
- whooping cough
- yellow fever
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