Notifiable conditions

List of notifiable conditions

This list of conditions is sourced from the Public Health Regulation 2018 (Schedule 1).

It provides a quick reference for the kind of notification required for each condition and highlights conditions that need immediate notification to the public health units.

Read about the types of notification requirements.

Notification resources

A-Z list of conditions (includes links to case report forms, condition-specific notification forms, guidelines, fact sheets and other resources)
Public Health Units contact details
Notifiable Conditions Report Form for Queensland Doctors/Clinicians (section 70 PHA) or a person in charge of a Hospital (section 71 PHA) (PDF, 48KB).
Queensland notification criteria guidelines for laboratories (PDF, 459kB)
Notification procedures are outlined in the guidelines
Guideline for the management of notifiable conditions in interstate visitors to Queensland.

Pathological, clinical and provisional diagnosis notifiable conditions

Pathology laboratories will notify conditions where criteria are pathology request or pathological diagnosis. Where a condition is solely notifiable on pathology request and/or pathological diagnosis, treating clinicians are not required to notify.

Treating clinicians must notify conditions where criteria are clinical or provisional diagnosis. Most conditions must be notified within 48 hours of meeting criteria and notification may be made by email, fax or phone to the local public health unit during office hours.

Some conditions are immediately notifiable and must be notified by fax or email (including after hours) as soon as they meet the criteria.

Immediate notifiable conditions are marked with an asterisk.

Condition	Notification requirements
*acute flaccid paralysis	clinical
acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis (APSGN)	clinical
acute rheumatic fever	clinical
acute viral hepatitis	provisional
adverse event following vaccination	clinical
*anthrax	pathological diagnosis pathology request
arbovirus (mosquito borne) infections: alphavirus infections including: Barmah Forest Getah Ross River Sindbis bunyavirus infections including: Gan Gan Mapputta Termeil Trubanaman flavivirus infections including: alfuy Edge Hill Kokobera West Nile/kunjin Stratford any other unspecified flaviviruses	pathological diagnosis
	pathological diagnosis
	pathological diagnosis
Any other arbovirus infections (NB: dengue, yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis and Murray Valley encephalitis are listed separately).	pathological diagnosis
*Australian bat lyssavirus infection	pathological diagnosis pathology request
*Australian bat lyssavirus, potential exposure (bat bite, scratch or mucous membrane exposure)	clinical
*avian influenza	provisional pathological diagnosis pathology request
*botulism Check schedule for different types of botulism.	pathological diagnosis pathology request
brucellosis	pathological diagnosis
campylobacteriosis	pathological diagnosis
chancroid	pathological diagnosis
chikungunya	pathological diagnosis
Chlamydia trachomatis infection Check schedule for different infections	pathological diagnosis
*cholera	pathological diagnosis
*ciguatera poisoning	clinical
coronaviruses COVID-19 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) *Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)	pathological diagnosis
	provisional pathological diagnosis pathology request
	provisional pathological diagnosis pathology request
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease	provisional pathological diagnosis
cryptosporidiosis	pathological diagnosis
*dengue	provisional pathological diagnosis
diphtheria (other than toxigenic)	provisional pathological diagnosis
*diphtheria (toxigenic)	provisional pathological diagnosis
donovanosis	pathological diagnosis
*food or water-borne illness in 2 or more cases	clinical
*food or water-borne illness in food handler	clinical
gonococcal infection	pathological diagnosis
*haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)	clinical
*Haemophilus influenzae type b (invasive) disease	provisional pathological diagnosis
*Hendra virus infection	pathological diagnosis pathology request
*hepatitis A	pathological diagnosis
hepatitis B	pathological diagnosis
hepatitis C	pathological diagnosis
hepatitis D	pathological diagnosis
hepatitis E	pathological diagnosis
hepatitis (other)	pathological diagnosis
human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV)	pathological diagnosis
influenza	pathological diagnosis
invasive group A streptococcal infection	pathological diagnosis
*Japanese encephalitis	pathological diagnosis pathology request
lead exposure (notifiable) (blood lead level of 5 ug/dL (0.24 μmol/L) or more)	pathological diagnosis
*legionellosis	pathological diagnosis
leprosy (Hansen’s disease)	pathological diagnosis
leptospirosis	pathological diagnosis
listeriosis	pathological diagnosis
lyssavirus (unspecified)	pathological diagnosis pathology request
malaria	pathological diagnosis
*measles	provisional pathological diagnosis
melioidosis	pathological diagnosis
*meningococcal disease (invasive)	provisional pathological diagnosis
*mpox (monkeypox)	pathological request pathological diagnosis
mumps	pathological diagnosis
*Murray Valley encephalitis	pathological diagnosis pathology request
non-tuberculous mycobacterial disease	pathological diagnosis
*paratyphoid	pathological diagnosis
pertussis	clinical pathological diagnosis
*plague	pathological diagnosis pathology request
pneumococcal disease (invasive)	pathological diagnosis
*poliomyelitis	pathological diagnosis pathology request
psittacosis (ornithosis)	pathological diagnosis
Q fever	pathological diagnosis
*rabies	pathological diagnosis pathology request
respiratory syncytial virus	pathological diagnosis
rheumatic heart disease	clinical
rotavirus infection	pathological diagnosis
rubella, including congenital rubella	pathological diagnosis
salmonellosis	pathological diagnosis
shiga toxin and vero toxin producing E.coli infection STEC/VTEC	pathological diagnosis
shigellosis	pathological diagnosis
*smallpox	provisional pathological diagnosis pathology request
syphilis, including congenital syphilis	pathological diagnosis
tetanus	clinical pathological diagnosis
tuberculosis	provisional pathological diagnosis
*tularaemia	pathological diagnosis pathology request
*typhoid	pathological diagnosis
varicella - zoster virus infection (chickenpox, shingles or unspecified)	pathological diagnosis
*viral haemorrhagic fevers (Crimean-Congo, Ebola, Lassa fever and Marburg viruses)	provisional pathological diagnosis pathology request
*yellow fever	pathological diagnosis pathology request
yersiniosis	pathological diagnosis
zika virus	provisional pathological diagnosis

¹While potential exposure to rabies and other lyssaviruses (bites or scratches from terrestrial mammals including bats in the rabies enzootic countries) is not notifiable, liaison with the local public health unit is required to access funded post exposure treatment.

Clinical and provisional diagnosis (clinicians)

Clinical diagnosis notifiable condition—diagnosed either fully or predominantly on the basis of clinical evidence, including clinical history and signs and symptoms.

Provisional diagnosis notifiable condition—can be provisionally diagnosed on the basis of clinical evidence, including clinical history and signs and symptoms; while awaiting laboratory confirmation. Sometimes early notification is required to enable prompt public health action.

Pathological diagnosis and pathology requests (pathology laboratories)

Pathological diagnosis—the condition requires notification upon pathological diagnosis.

Pathology request—notification is required when the request for diagnosis is received. Sometimes early notification is required to enable prompt public health action.

Last updated: 22 December 2023