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Statutory Notifications

Any Clinician suspecting an infectious disease is required by Law under the Isle of Man Public Health Act 1990 to notify the Public Health Directorate.

A Notifiable Diseases Notification Form should be completed stating diagnosis and this should be sent to:

The Proper Officer,

Public Health Directorate,

Crookall House,

Demesne Road,

Douglas,

Isle of Man,

IM1 3QA.

Tel: (01624) 642639

Fax: (01624) 642684

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Statutory Notifications are an important way of:

Monitoring trends in infectious diseases.
Alerting the Public Health Directorate ensures that immediate action is taken to prevent the spread of the disease.
Enabling Public Health to measure the incidence rates of an infectious disease and monitor changes which could signal an outbreak which may need further investigation and the introduction of special control measures.

Notifiable Diseases
Acute encephalitis Acute poliomyelitis Anthrax Cholera Diphtheria Dysentery Food poisoning Leprosy Leptospirosis Malaria Measles Meningitis (meningococcal, pneumococcal haemophilus influenzae viral, other specified unspecified) Meningococcal septicaemia (without meningitis) Mumps Ophthalmia neonatorum Paratyphoid fever Plague Rabies Relapsing fever Rubella Scarlet fever Smallpox Tetanus Tuberculosis (please contact Public Health for surveillance forms) Typhoid fever Typhus fever Viral haemorrhagic fever Viral hepatitis, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B Hepatitis C, other Whooping cough Yellow fever If Measles, Mumps or Rubella is suspected. Public Health will contact the index case directly to organise a salivary antibody test for confirmation of the disease.

For further Public Health Information, please refer to the Public Health Act 1990.

This page was last updated on 27 August 2008.

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