Public Health and Wellbeing Regulations 2019
Sch 4Pathology services—notifiable conditions and notification details if result of test indicates person has or may have a notifiable condition
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Schedule 4—Pathology services—notifiable conditions and notification details if result of test indicates person has or may have a notifiable condition
Regulations 91(1), 92(b) and 94(a) and (b)
Part 1—Notifiable conditions requiring notification as soon as practicable
1 Anthrax
1A Avian influenza
2 Botulism
3 Candida auris
4 Cholera
5 Diphtheria
6 Food-borne and water-borne illness (2 or more related cases)
7 Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) infection (meningitis, epiglottitis, other invasive infections)
8 Hepatitis A
8A Invasive Group A Streptococcal (iGAS) disease
9 Japanese encephalitis
10 Legionellosis
11 Listeriosis
11A Lyssavirus—Australian Bat lyssavirus (ABLV)
11B Lyssavirus—other (specify)
12 Measles
13 Meningococcal infection (invasive)
14 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus
(MERS-CoV)
14A Mpox
15 Murray Valley encephalitis virus infection
16 Paratyphoid
17 Plague
18 Poliovirus infection
19 Rabies
20 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
21 Smallpox
22 Tularaemia
23 Typhoid
24 Viral haemorrhagic fevers
25 Yellow fever
Part 2—Notifiable conditions requiring written notification within 5 business days
1 Arbovirus infections—other arbovirus infections
2 Barmah Forest virus infection
3 Blood lead greater than 5μg/dL
4 Brucellosis
5 Campylobacter infection
6 Carbapenemase-producing Acinetobacter spp.
7 Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales
8 Carbapenemase-producing Pseudomonas spp.
9 Chikungunya virus infection
10 *Chlamydia trachomatis infection
11 Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
12 Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD)
13 Cryptosporidiosis
14 Dengue virus infection
15 *Donovanosis (Klebsiella granulomatis infection)
16 *Gonococcal infection
17 Hepatitis B (newly acquired)