Download List of Infectious Diseases legally notifiable under the Infectious

LIST OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES LEGALLY NOTIFIABLE UNDER THE INFECTIOUS
DISEASES ACT
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES UNDER SECTION 6 OF THE INFECTIOUS
DISEASES ACT*
*Notification of infectious diseases
6. — (1) Every medical practitioner who has reason to believe or suspect that any person attended or treated by
him is suffering from an infectious disease or is a carrier of that disease shall notify the Director within the
prescribed time and in such form or manner as the Director may require.
(2) Every person in charge of a laboratory used for the diagnosis of disease who becomes aware of the
existence of an infectious disease in the course of his work shall notify the Director within the prescribed time
and in such form or manner as the Director may require.
Medical practitioners and laboratories are reminded to notify infectious diseases on the
MD131 Form (click on hyperlink for the form) via:
 Electronic Notification System (CD-LENS)
https://www.cdlens.moh.gov.sg/cdlens

OR
Filling up the form and faxing:
6221 5528 / 6221 5538 / 62215567
Diseases and deaths to be notified within 24 hours from time of diagnosis to
Director, Communicable Diseases Division, MOH (Fax 62215528/62215538/62215567)
1. Avian influenza
2. Botulism
3. Chikungunya Fever
4. Cholera
5. Dengue Fever
6. Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever
7. Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)
8. Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease
9. Japanese Encephalitis
10. Legionellosis
11. Leptospirosis
12. Malaria
13. Measles#
14. Melioidosis
15. Meningococcal Disease
16. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infections (MERS-CoV)
17. Murine Typhus
18. Nipah Virus Infection
19. Paratyphoid
20. Plague
21. Poliomyelitis
22. Rabies
23. Rubella
24. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
25. Typhoid
26. Yellow Fever
27. Zika Virus Infection
Diseases to be notified within 72 hours from time of diagnosis to Director,
Communicable Diseases Division, MOH (Fax 62215528/62215538/62215567)
28. Acute Hepatitis A
29. Acute Hepatitis B
30. Acute Hepatitis C
31. Acute Hepatitis E
32. Campylobacteriosis
33. Diphtheria
34. Haemophilius Influenzae Type b (Hib) Disease
35. HIV Infection
36. Leprosy
37. Mumps
38. Pertussis
39. Pneumococcal Disease (Invasive)
40. Salmonellosis
41. Tetanus
42. Chlamydial Genital Infection
43. Genital Herpes (first episode)
44. Gonorrhoea
45. Non-Gonococcal Urethritis
46. Syphilis - Infectious (primary/secondary)
47. Syphilis - Non-infectious (latent/tertiary)
48. Syphilis – congenital
49. Tuberculosis via MD532 Form