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Nationally consistent notification of infectious diseases provides data on disease distribution across all States and Territories. These data provide a basis for the development of public health policy, a mechanism for the development of response to communicable disease outbreaks of national significance and basic information relating to the development and implementation of a communicable disease control policy. The following list shows the communicable diseases that have been nationally endorsed by the Communicable Diseases Network Australia.

Australian nationally notifiable diseases

• Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
• Anthrax
• Arboviruses - not elsewhere classified (NEC)
• Australian bat lyssavirus
• Barmah Forest virus
• Botulism (foodborne)
• Brucellosis
• Campylobacteriosis
• Chlamydia trachomatis
• Cholera
• Cryptosporidiosis
• Dengue virus
• Diphtheria
• Donovanosis
• Gonococcal infection
• Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)
• Haemophilus influenzae type b (HIB) (invasive only)
• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B incident
• Hepatitis B unspecified
• Hepatitis C incident and unspecified
• Hepatitis D
• Hepatitis E
• Hepatitis - not elsewhere classified (NEC)
• Human immunodeficiency (HIV) infection
• Influenza (laboratory-confirmed)
• Japanese encephalitis virus
• Kunjin virus
• Legionellosis
• Leprosy
• Leptospirosis
• Listeriosis
• Lyssavirus - not elsewhere classified (NEC)
• Malaria
• Measles
• Meningococcal infection
• Mumps
• Murray Valley encephalitis virus
• Ornithosis (psittacosis)
• Pertussis (whooping cough)
• Plague
• Poliomyelitis
• Pneumococcal infection (invasive)
• Q fever
• Rabies
• Ross River virus
• Rubella - congenital rubella
• Salmonellosis (including paratyphoid)
• Shigellosis
• Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli/verotoxigenic E. coli (SLTEC/VTEC)
• Syphilis - congenital syphilis
• Tetanus
• Tuberculosis
• Typhoid
• Viral haemorrhagic fevers (quarantinable)
• Yellow fever

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Australian State/Territory notifiable communicable diseases, 2001

In addition to the list of nationally notifiable diseases, each State and Territory in Australia has its own list of notifiable diseases. The diseases that are additional to those on the national register are listed below for each State/Territory.

Australian Capital Territory

• Chancroid
• Equine morbillivirus (Hendra virus) infection
• Giardiasis
• Lymphogranuloma venereum
• Yersiniosis

New South Wales

• Adverse event following immunisation
• Chancroid
• Foodborne illness in 2 or more related cases
• Gastroenteritis among people of any age, in an institution (e.g. among persons in educational or residential institutions)
• Lymphogranuloma Venereum
• Typhus (epidemic)

Northern Territory

• Acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis
• Acute rheumatic fever
• Adverse event following immunisation
• Amoebiasis
• Atypical mycobacterial disease
• Chancroid
• Chlamydial conjunctivitis
• Echinococcosis (hydatid disease)
• Human T-cell lymphotropic virus
• Lymphogranuloma Venereum
• Melioidosis
• Rotavirus infection
• Smallpox
• Trichomoniasis
• Thrombotic thrombocytopaenia purpura
• Typhus (all forms)
• Vibrio food poisoning
• Water or foodborne diseases in 2 or more related cases
• Yersiniosis

Queensland

• Acute flaccid paralysis
• Adverse event following immunisation
• Atypical mycobacterial disease
• Bunyavirus infections (not included in arbovirus NEC)
• Chancroid
• Ciguatera poisoning
• Echinococcosis (hydatid disease)
• Elevated lead levels
• Equine morbillivirus (Hendra virus) infection
• Foodborne or waterborne disease in 2 or more related cases
• Lymphogranuloma venereum
• Melioidosis
• Yersiniosis

South Australia

• Atypical mycobacterial disease
• Echinococcosis (hydatid disease)
• Yersiniosis

Tasmania

• Amoebiasis
• Chancroid
• Echinococcosis (hydatid disease)
• Giardiasis
• Lymphogranuloma venereum
• Mycobacterial infection
• Rickettsial infection (including Flinders Island spotted fever and others)
• Suspected cases of food or waterborne illness
• Taeniasis
• Vancomycin resistant enterococci
• Vibrio infection
• Yersiniosis

Victoria

• Food and waterborne illness in 2 or more related cases
• Giardiasis

Western Australia

• Amoebiasis
• Amoebic meningitis
• Chancroid
• Echinococcosis (hydatid disease)
• Giardiasis
• Melioidosis
• Methicilin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection
• Relapsing fever
• Scarlet fever
• Schistosomiasis (Bilharzia)
• Typhus (Rickettsial infection)
• Yersiniosis

This article was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 25, No 4, November 2001.