What Are Notifiable Diseases?
Legal infectious diseases refer to measures taken by various governments in their infectious disease prevention regulations to specify the occurrence of infectious diseases in specific items, and physicians or medical institutions must report to the competent health authority and treat or even isolate them in accordance with the law. Those classified as legal infectious diseases usually have the characteristics of rapid transmission, severe illness, and high mortality.
Notifiable infectious diseases
- Legal infectious diseases refer to
- In June 1955, the first "Administrative Measures for Infectious Diseases" was promulgated and implemented by the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China. A national epidemic reporting system was established. The number of infectious disease management diseases was determined to be 18 in two categories. 3 types of A: plague, cholera, smallpox; 15 types of B: Japanese encephalitis, diphtheria, typhus, recurrent fever, dysentery (bacillary dysentery and amoeba), typhoid and paratyphoid, scarlet fever, epidemic Meningitis, measles, polio, pertussis, anthracnose, wave fever, forest encephalitis, and rabies. [1]
Notifiable Infectious Diseases
- Type A infectious diseases are also called compulsory management infectious diseases, including: plague and cholera, a total of 2 types. The time limit for reporting epidemics after the occurrence of such infectious diseases, the isolation and treatment of patients and pathogen carriers, and the treatment of epidemic sites and epidemic areas are mandatory.
Notifiable Infectious Diseases
- Type B infectious diseases are also known as strictly managed infectious diseases. A total of 26 species include: infectious atypical pneumonia, AIDS, viral hepatitis, polio, human infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza, measles, epidemic hemorrhagic fever, rabies , Japanese Encephalitis, Dengue Fever, Anthrax, Bacterial and Amoebic Dysentery, Tuberculosis, Typhoid and Paratyphoid, Epidemic Encephalomyelitis, Pertussis, Diphtheria, Neonatal Tetanus, Scarlet Fever, Brucella Disease, gonorrhea, syphilis, leptospirosis, schistosomiasis, malaria, human infection with H7N9 avian influenza. A total of 26 species. Such infectious diseases must be prevented and controlled in strict accordance with relevant regulations and prevention and control programs. Among them, infectious atypical pneumonia in type B infectious diseases and pulmonary anthrax in anthrax, take measures to prevent and control type A infectious diseases. [5]
Notifiable Infectious Diseases
- Type C infectious diseases are also known as surveillance and management infectious diseases, including: influenza, mumps, rubella, acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, leprosy, epidemic and endemic typhus, melanosis, hydatid disease, silkworm Insect diarrhea, infectious diarrhea, hand-foot-mouth disease [4] , except for cholera, bacterial and amoebic dysentery, typhoid and paratyphoid [4] . Such infectious diseases shall be managed in accordance with the monitoring and management methods prescribed by the health administrative department of the State Council