Table 6.

Important notifiable diseases

Bacteria	Mycobacteria	Protozoa	Syndromes	Virus
Anthrax	Leprosy	Malaria	Acute encephalitis	Acute infectious hepatitis
Botulism	Tuberculosis		Acute meningitis	Acute poliomyelitis
Brucellosis			Food poisoning	Measles
Cholera			Haemolytic–uraemic syndrome	Mumps
Diphtheria			Infectious bloody diarrhoea	Rabies
Enteric fever				Rubella
Invasive group A Streptococcus				Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
Legionnaire's disease				Smallpox
Leptospirosis				Viral haemorrhagic fever
Meningococcal septicaemia				Yellow fever
Plague
Relapsing fever
Scarlet fever
Tetanus
Typhus
Whooping cough