S.I. No. 276/2016 - Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Regulations 2016

Type Statutory Instrument
Publication 2016-05-27
Last updated 2018-12-28
State In force superseded text
Text As published
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Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 27th May, 2016.

I, SIMON HARRIS, Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 5 and 29 and by section 31 (amended by section 34 of the Health Act 1953 (No. 26 of 1953)) of the Health Act 1947 (No. 28 of 1947) hereby make the following regulations:

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These Regulations may be cited as the Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Regulations 2016.

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The Infectious Diseases Regulations 1981 ( S.I. No. 390 of 1981 ) are amended by the substitution of the following Schedule for the Schedule (amended by the Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Regulations 2015 ( S.I. No. 566 of 2015 )) to those regulations:

“SCHEDULE

Diseases specified to be infectious diseases and their respective causative pathogens

Disease Causative Pathogen
Acute anterior poliomyelitis Polio virus
Ano-genital warts Human papilloma virus
Anthrax Bacillus anthracis
Bacillus cereus food-borne infection/intoxication Bacillus cereus
Bacterial meningitis (not otherwise specified)
Botulism Clostridium botulinum
Brucellosis Brucella species
Campylobacter infection Campylobacter species
Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae infection (invasive) Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae (blood, CSF or other normally sterile site)
Chancroid Haemophilus ducreyi
Chickenpox — hospitalised cases Varicella-zoster virus
Chikungunya disease Chikungunya virus
Chlamydia trachomatis infection (genital) Chlamydia trachomatis
Cholera Vibrio cholerae
Clostridium difficile infection Clostridium difficile
Clostridium perfringens (type A) food-borne disease Clostridium perfringens
Creutzfeldt Jakob disease
variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease
Cryptosporidiosis Cryptosporidium parvum, hominis
Cytomegalovirus infection (congenital) Cytomegalovirus
Dengue Fever Dengue Virus
Diphtheria Corynebacterium diphtheriae or ulcerans (toxin producing)
Echinococcosis Echinococcus species
Enterococcal bacteraemia Enterococcus species (blood)
Escherichia coli infection (invasive) Escherichia coli (blood, CSF)
Giardiasis Giardia lamblia
Gonorrhoea Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Granuloma inguinale Klebsiella granulomatis
Haemophilus influenzae disease (invasive) Haemophilus influenzae (blood, CSF or other normally sterile site)
Hepatitis A (acute) infection Hepatitis A virus
Hepatitis B (acute and chronic) infection Hepatitis B virus
Hepatitis C infection Hepatitis C virus
Hepatitis E infection Hepatitis E virus
Herpes simplex (genital) Herpes simplex virus
Human immunodeficiency virus infection Human immunodeficiency virus
Influenza Influenza A and B virus
Klebsiella pneumoniae infection (invasive) Klebsiella pneumoniae (blood or CSF)
Legionellosis Legionella species
Leprosy Mycobacterium leprae
Leptospirosis Leptospira species
Listeriosis Listeria monocytogenes
Lyme disease (neuroborreliosis) Borrelia burgdorferi
Lymphogranuloma venereum Chlamydia trachomatis
Malaria Plasmodium falciparum, vivax, knowlesi, ovale, malariae
Measles Measles virus
Meningococcal disease Neisseria meningitidis
Mumps Mumps virus
Non-specific urethritis
Noroviral infection Norovirus
Paratyphoid Salmonella Paratyphi
Pertussis Bordetella pertussis
Plague Yersinia pestis
Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection (invasive) Pseudomonas aeruginosa (blood or CSF)
Q Fever Coxiella burnetii
Rabies Rabies virus
Respiratory syncytial virus infection Respiratory syncytial virus
Rotavirus infection Rotavirus
Rubella Rubella virus
Salmonellosis Salmonella spp other than S. Typhi and S. Paratyphi
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) SARS-associated coronavirus
Shigellosis Shigella species
Smallpox Variola virus
Staphylococcal food poisoning Enterotoxigenic Staphylococcus aureus
Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia Staphylococcus aureus (blood)
Streptococcus group A infection (invasive) Streptococcus pyogenes (blood, CSF or other normally sterile site)
Streptococcus group B infection (invasive) Streptoccus agalactiae (blood, CSF, or other normally sterile site)
Streptococcus pneumoniae infection (invasive) Streptococcus pneumoniae (blood, CSF or other normally sterile site)
Syphilis Treponema pallidum
Tetanus Clostridium tetani
Toxoplasmosis Toxoplasma gondii
Trichinosis Trichinella species
Trichomoniasis Trichomonas vaginalis
Tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
Tularemia Francisella tularensis
Typhoid Salmonella Typhi
Typhus Rickettsia prowazekii
Verotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection Verotoxin producing Escherichia coli
Viral encephalitis
Viral haemorrhagic fevers
Viral meningitis
West Nile fever West Nile virus
Yellow fever Yellow fever virus
Yersiniosis Yersinia enterocolitica, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
Zika virus infection Zika virus”.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

23 May 2016.

SIMON HARRIS,

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulation and does not purport to be a legal interpretation)

These Regulations amend the Schedule to the Infectious Diseases Regulations, 1981, (as amended) to include Zika virus infection as an additional infectious disease which requires to be notified.

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