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Schedule 1 Notifiable Diseases

England and Wales

Acute encephalitis
F1Acute flaccid paralysis or acute flaccid myelitis (AFP or AFM)
Acute meningitis
Acute poliomyelitis
Acute infectious hepatitis
Anthrax
Botulism
Brucellosis
Chickenpox (varicella)
Cholera
Congenital syphilis
F2COVID-19
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
Diphtheria
Disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI)
Enteric fever (typhoid or paratyphoid fever)
Food poisoning
Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)
F3Hantavirus disease, including hantavirus pulmonary or cardiopulmonary syndrome and haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
Infectious bloody diarrhoea
Influenza of zoonotic origin
Invasive group A streptococcal disease and scarlet fever
Legionnaires' Disease
Leprosy
Malaria
Measles
Meningococcal septicaemia
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS)
F4Monkeypox
Mumps
Neonatal herpes
Plague
Rabies
Rubella
SARS
Smallpox
Tetanus
Tuberculosis
Typhus
Viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF)
Whooping cough
Yellow fever

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Sch. 1 inserted (6.4.2025) by The Health Protection (Notification) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/291), regs. 1(2), 4

F2

Sch. 1: entry inserted (5.3.2020 at 6.15 p.m.) by The Health Protection (Notification) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/237), regs. 1(2), 2(2)

F3

Words in Sch. 1 inserted (18.5.2026 at 6.00 p.m.) by The Health Protection (Notification) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/535), regs. 1(2), 2

F4

Words in Sch. 1 inserted (8.6.2022) by The Health Protection (Notification) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/616), regs. 1(2), 2(2)