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Notifiable disease reporting
Under the SA Public Health Act, 2011, medical practitioners and diagnostic laboratories are required to notify SA Health of cases (including deaths) suspected of having or diagnosed with notifiable conditions (i.e. notifiable communicable diseases), as soon as practicable but, in any event, within three days of suspecting or confirming a diagnosis of a notifiable condition.
Notification is a confidential process.
How to notify SA Health of a communicable disease
Urgent telephone notification
Urgent telephone notification by medical practitioners is required for the following conditions. Please phone the Communicable Disease Control Branch (CDCB) 24 hours/7 days a week on 1300 232 272
- Anthrax
- Australian Bat Lyssavirus
- Botulism
- Cholera
- Diphtheria
- Food poisoning
- Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (HUS)
- Haemophilus influenzae, invasive
- Hepatitis A
- Influenza, avian in humans
- Influenza, pandemic
- Japanese Encephalitis
- Kunjin virus
- Legionella pneumophila
- Listeriosis
- Measles
- Meningococcal disease, invasive
- Murray Valley Encephalitis
- Paratyphoid (Salmonella Paratyphi)
- Plague
- Poliomyelitis
- Rabies
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
- Shiga Toxin producing Escherichia coli infection (STEC)
- Smallpox
- Thrombotic Thrombocytopaenic Purpura (TTP)
- Tularaemia
- Typhoid (Salmonella Typhi)
- Viral Haemorrhagic Fever
- Yellow Fever
To notify sexually transmitted infections and blood borne viruses
The appropriate notification form/s will be sent to medical practitioners following a positive laboratory result OR doctors can phone the CDCB on 1300 232 272 for the following notifiable conditions:
- Chlamydia trachomatis (sexually transmitted infection only)
- Donovanosis
- Gonococcal infection
- Syphilis and Congenital Syphilis
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatitis D
To notify tuberculosis and other mycobacterial infections
Medical practitioners can notify tuberculosis and other mycobacterial infections by:
Phone: Call SA Tuberculosis Services on (08) 8222 5483
Fax: Send a completed Report of Notifiable Condition or Related Death Form (PDF 72KB) to SA Tuberculosis Services on (08) 8222 5398.
To notify other notifiable conditions
Medical practitioners can notify all other notifiable conditions (as listed below) by fax, phone or post:
Fax: a completed Report of Notifiable Condition or Related Death Form (PDF 72KB) to CDCB on (08) 8226 7187 OR
Phone: CDCB on 1300 232 272 OR
Post: a completed Report of Notifiable Condition or Related Death Form (PDF 72KB) to CDCB
- Arbovirus (not listed elsewhere)
- Barmah Forest virus
- Brucellosis
- Campylobacteriosis Chikungunya virus
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Dengue
- Hepatitis E
- Influenza
- Legionella longbeachae
- Legionellosis (other species)
- Leprosy
- Leptospirosis
- Malaria
- Mumps
- Pertussis
- Pneumococcal disease, invasive
- Psittacosis/Ornithosis
- Q fever
- Ross River virus
- Rotavirus
- Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome
- Salmonellosis
- Shigellosis
- Tetanus
- Varicella-Zoster virus– Chickenpox
- Varicella-Zoster virus - Shingles
- Yersiniosis
For more information contact the Communicable Disease Control Branch
Phone: 1300 232 272
Fax: (08) 8226 7187
Post: CDCB Reply Paid 6, GPO Box 6 Rundle Mall, Adelaide South Australia 5000.
Email: cdcb@health.sa.gov.au
Related information
- Diseases notified to SA Health (weekly epidemiological summary report)
- Diseases notified to SA Health (8 week epidemiological summary report)
- Diseases notified to SA Health (7 year and year to date comparison data)
- Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) and Blood Borne Virus (BBV) disease notification summary report (5 year comparisons)
- Public Health Act 2011