Public health and notifiable diseases

Public health responses for notifiable diseases in the Northern Territory (NT) are coordinated by the Centre for Disease Control (CDC), Public Health Division.

Medical staff and laboratories must notify CDC when diagnosing or seriously suspecting a disease listed on the NT schedule of notifiable diseases.

For more information on which conditions must be notified, get the schedule of notifiable diseases in the NT PDF (251.7 KB).

Go to the Surveillance Updates to read about communicable disease trends across the Northern Territory.

How to notify

For urgent notifications, call your local CDC immediately.

For urgent notification after hours, contact the on-call public health physician through the Royal Darwin Hospital switchboard.

For routine notifications, follow these steps:

Step 1. Fill in the notifiable disease reporting form.

Notifiable disease reporting form PDF (178.0 KB)
Notifiable disease reporting form DOCX (76.7 KB)

Step 2. Submit the completed form to CDC.

Schools and childcare centres

Exclusion periods apply to schools, pre-schools and day care centres for children and educators who have been exposed to an infectious disease.

To find out about the exclusion periods, get the Time Out poster from the NT Health Digital Library.

Disease resources
Acute post streptococcal glomerulonephritis (APSGN)
Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) / Rheumatic heart disease (RHD)
Anthrax
Australian bat lyssavirus and rabies
Avian influenza (bird flu)
Bacterial vaginosis
Balanitis
Barmah forest virus
Brucellosis suis
Box jellyfish
Campylobacteriosis
Chickenpox (varicella)
Chikungunya
Chlamydia
Ciguatera fish poisoning
Congenital syphilis
COVID-19
Creutzfeldt-jakob disease
Cryptosporidiosis
Dengue
Diphtheria
Donovanosis
Ebola
Elevated blood lead level
Fifth disease
Gastroenteritis
Genital herpes
Genital warts
Giardiasis
Gonococcal conjunctivitis / Gonococcal neonatal opthalmia
Gonorrhoea
Group A streptococcal diseases
Haemophilus influenza type B (Hib) invasive
Hand, foot and mouth disease
Head lice
Heat stress
Hendra virus
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C
HIV
Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV1)
Influenza
Invasive group A streptococcal (iGAS)
Irukandji syndrome
Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV)
Legionellosis
Leprosy
Leptospirosis
Listeriosis
Malaria
Measles
Melioidosis
Meningococcal
Middle east respiratory syndrome (MERS)
Monkeypox (Mpox)
Mumps
Murray valley encephalitis
Mycoplasma genitalium
Naegleria fowleri
Nontuberculous mycobacterial disease (NTM)
Norovirus
Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)
Pneumococcal disease
Pubic lice (crabs)
Q fever
Ross river virus
Rotavirus
Salmonellosis
Scabies and crusted scabies
Scrub typhus
Shigellosis
Shingles (herpes zoster)
Sporotrichosis
Strongyloidiasis
Syphilis
Thrush (candidiasis)
Trachoma
Tetanus
Trichomoniasis
Tuberculosis (TB)
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever
Vaginal thrush
Vibrio
Whooping cough (pertussis)
Yersiniosis
Zika

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