Notifiable Diseases

By:
Dr. Amani Abdel Rahman
MD
• Notifiable diseases are diseases with the
potential of causing epidemics
• Must be notified to the next level:
e.g. Dispensary → Rural hospital
• Public health law (2008) identified Two classes
A&B
• National Ministries of Health either add or
delete disease to or from a list.
 Class A
• Immediate notification on suspicion, not later
than 24 hours.
• Spread very fast
• High potential epidemics & possibly
Pandemics.
• High morbidity & mortality
 Class A
1. Cholera (acute watery diarrhoea)
2. Acute flaccid paralysis (A.F.P)
3. Yellow fever
4. Haemorrhagic fevers
5. Acute epidemic typhus
6. Acute epidemic Influenza
7. Neonatal Tetanus
8. Human Plaque
9. SARS
10.Measles
• A.F.P Differential diagnosis include
Poliomyelitis → Targeted for Eradication
• Neonatal Tetanus does not usually cause
epidemics, but in Sudan we are targeting
Neonatal tetanus for elimination.
 Class B
• Do not spread quickly
• Do not usually cause epidemics
• Reported weekly
• This class include in addition to list A, the
following diseases:
 Class B
1. Adult Tetanus
2. Malaria
3. Typhoid
4. Diphtheria
5. Whooping cough
6. Cerebro-Spinal-Menengitis (C.S.M)
7. Anthrax
 Class B (cont.)
8. Hepatitis
9. Rabies
10. Food poisoning
11. Dysentery
12.Tuberculosis
13. G.worm
 Class C
• Others
• Reported monthly.