Schedule 2 Notifiable diseases

Schedule 2 Notifiable diseases

(Section 81)

Acute rheumatic fever

Acute viral hepatitis

Adverse event following immunisation

Avian influenza in humans

Botulism

Cancer

Cholera

Congenital malformation (as described in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems) in a child under the age of one year

COVID-19 (also known as Novel Coronavirus 2019)

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD)

Cystic fibrosis in a child under the age of one year

Diphtheria

Foodborne illness in two or more related cases

Gastroenteritis among people of any age, in an institution (for example, among persons in educational or residential institutions)

Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome

Haemophilus influenzae type b

Hypothyroidism in a child under the age of one year

Legionnaires’ disease

Leprosy

Lyssavirus

Measles

Meningococcal disease

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus

Mpox

Paratyphoid

Pertussis (whooping cough)

Phenylketonuria in a child under the age of one year

Plague

Poliomyelitis

Pregnancy with a child having a congenital malformation (as described in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems), cystic fibrosis, hypothyroidism, thalassaemia major or phenylketonuria

Rabies

Rheumatic heart disease in a person under the age of 35 years

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Smallpox

Streptococcus pyogenes associated toxic shock syndrome (STSS)

Streptococcus pyogenes detected and associated with necrotising fasciitis

Streptococcus pyogenes detected and associated with puerperal or neonatal sepsis

Syphilis

Tetanus

Thalassaemia major in a child under the age of one year

Tuberculosis

Typhoid

Viral haemorrhagic fevers

Yellow fever

sch 2: Am 2013 (560), cl 3 (2); 2015 (591), cl 3 (2); 2018 (644), cl 3 (2); 2020 (17), cl 3(3); 2020 (107), cl 3(5) (6); 2022 (241), sec 3(2); 2024 (497), Sch 1[3] [4]; 2025 (19), Sch 1[4].