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Notifiable Diseases

 

​The following are the 72 notifiable diseases in Malta* 

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Infectious Diseases


1. AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
2. Acute encephalitis
3. Acute flaccid paralysis
4. Anthrax
5. Antimicrobial Resistance
6. Bacterial meningitis, other than meningococcal
7. Botulism
8. Brucellosis
9. Campylobacteriosis
10. Chikungunya
11. Chlamydia infection
12. Cholera
13. Congenital rubella syndrome
14. COVID 19 (SARS/COV/2)
15. Cryptosporidiosis
16. Dengue Fever
17. Diphtheria
18. Dysentery (amoebic and bacillary)
19. Echinococcosis
20. Erysipelas
21. E. coli: Enterohaemorrhagic
22. Food borne illness; unspecified
23. Giardiasis
24. Gonococcal Infection
25. Granular conjunctivitis/trachoma
26. Haemophilus influenza group B
27. Hepatitis A
28. Hepatitis B
29. Hepatitis C
30. HIV
31. Influenza
32. Legionellosis
33. Leishmaniasis
34. Leprosy
35. Leptospirosis
36. Listeriosis
37. Louse borne relapsing fever
38. Malaria
39. Measles
40. Meningococcal disease
41. Mumps
42. Nosocomial Infection (Hospital acquired infection)
43. Pertussis
44. Plague
45. Pneumococcal infection
46. Pneumonia
47. Poliomyelitis
48. Puerperal fever
49. Q-fever
50. Rabies
51. Rubella
52. Salmonellosis
53. Scarlet fever
54. Shigellosis
55. Smallpox
56. Sudden acute respiratory syndrome (SARS))
57. Syphilis
58. Tetanus
59. Toxoplasmosis
60. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies ( prion disease)
61. Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, variant (v CJD)
62. Trichinosis
63. Tuberculosis
64. Tularaemia
65. Typhoid fever
66. Typhus
67. Varicella (chickenpox/herpes)
68. Viral haemorrhagic fever (Ebola, Lassa fever)
69. West Nile fever
70. Yellow fever
71. Yersinosis
72. Zika Virus ​

If you would like to notify an infectious disease, kindly fill out the form here [notifyinfectiousdisease.gov.mt​]

 
*In terms of Article 27(a)(i) of the Public Health Act the Superintendent of Public Health has declared the above as notifiable diseases. 
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