Bloodborne diseases

• Hepatitis (NEC)
• Hepatitis B (newly acquired)
• Hepatitis B (unspecified)
• Hepatitis C (newly acquired)
• Hepatitis C (unspecified)
• Hepatitis D

Gastrointestinal diseases

• Botulism
• Campylobacteriosis
• Cholera
• Cryptosporidiosis
• Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (otherwise known as HUS)
• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis E
• Listeriosis
• Paratyphoid fever
• Salmonellosis
• Shiga Toxin-producing E. Coli or Verotoxin‑producing E. Coli (otherwise known, respectively, as STEC or VTEC)
• Shigellosis
• Typhoid fever

Listed human diseases

• Human influenza in humans with pandemic potential
• Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (otherwise known as MERS-CoV)
• Plague
• Severe acute respiratory syndrome (otherwise known as SARS)
• Smallpox
• Viral haemorrhagic fevers
• Yellow fever

Sexually transmissible infections

• Chlamydia
• Donovanosis
• Gonococcal infection
• Syphilis-congenital
• Syphilis-less than 2 years duration
• Syphilis-more than 2 years duration or unspecified duration

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Vaccine preventable diseases

• Diphtheria
• Haemophilus influenzae type b
• Influenza (laboratory confirmed)
• Measles
• Mumps
• Pertussis
• Pneumococcal disease-invasive
• Poliovirus infection
• Rotavirus
• Rubella
• Rubella-congenital
• Tetanus
• Varicella zoster infection-Chickenpox
• Varicella zoster infection-Shingles
• Varicella zoster infection-unspecified

Vectorborne diseases

• Barmah Forest virus infection
• Chikungunya virus infection
• Dengue virus infection
• Flavivirus infection (unspecified)
• Japanese encephalitis virus infection
• Kunjin virus infection
• Malaria
• Murray Valley encephalitis virus infection
• Ross River virus infection

Note: Vectorborne means transmitted by an insect or other organism.

Zoonoses

• Anthrax
• Australian bat lyssavirus infection
• Brucellosis
• Leptospirosis
• Lyssavirus infection (NEC)
• Ornithosis (otherwise known as Psittacosis)
• Q fever
• Rabies
• Tularaemia

Note: The term Zoonoses refers to diseases which are communicable to humans from another animal species.

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Other bacterial diseases

• Legionellosis
• Leprosy
• Meningococcal disease-invasive
• Tuberculosis

Diseases under national surveillance performed by surveillance bodies other than the Department of Health

• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (otherwise known as CJD)
• Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (otherwise known as vCJD)
• Human immunodeficiency virus (otherwise known as HIV)

Note: The term ‘surveillance bodies other than the Department of Health’ refers to the following non-government bodies:

1. the Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry; and
2. the Kirby Institute for infection and immunity in society.