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 coronavirus 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
Vaccine preventable diseases
- Diphtheria
- Haemophilus influenzae type b
- Influenza (laboratory confirmed)
- Measles
- Meningococcal disease-invasive
- 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
- Avian influenza in humans
- 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.
top of pageOther notifiable diseases
- Group A streptococcal disease-invasive (otherwise know as iGAS)
- Legionellosis
- Leprosy
- Respiratory syncytial virus (otherwise know as RSV)
- 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)
NEC, in relation to a disease, means not elsewhere classified in the National Notifiable Disease List
Note: The term ‘surveillance bodies other than the Department of Health’ refers to the following non-government bodies:
- the Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry; and
- the Kirby Institute for infection and immunity in society.
Communicable Diseases Surveillance