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S.I. No. 452/2011 - Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Regulations 2011.

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Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

"Iris Oifigiúil" of 13th September, 2011.

I, JAMES REILLY, Minister for Health in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 5 and 29 and by 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:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Regulations 2011.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 21st day of September 2011.

3. The Schedule (amended by the Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Regulations 2007 ( S.I. No. 559 of 2007 )) to the Infectious Diseases Regulations 1981 ( S.I. No. 390 of 1981 ) is amended by substituting the following Schedule for that Schedule:

SCHEDULE

Diseases and their respective causative pathogens specified to be Infectious Diseases

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
Cytomegalovirus infection (congenital)	Cytomegalovirus
Cryptosporidiosis	Cryptosporidium parvum, hominis
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
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
Leptospirosis	Leptospira species
Leprosy	Mycobacterium leprae
Listeriosis	Listeria monocytogenes
Lyme disease	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 meningitis
Viral haemorrhagic fevers
West Nile fever	West Nile virus
Yellow Fever	Yellow Fever virus
Yersiniosis	Yersinia enterocolitica, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

8 September 2011.

JAMES REILLY,

Minister for Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

The Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Regulations, 2011 amend the Schedule to the Infectious Diseases Regulations, 1981, (as amended), to remove acute infectious gastroenteritis from the list of infectious diseases which require to be notified; and to include a number of additional infectious diseases which require to be notified. The additional diseases are as follows:

-� Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae infection (invasive)

-� Chickenpox - hospitalised cases

-� Chikungunya disease

-� Clostridium difficile infection

-� Cytomegalovirus infection (congenital)

-� Dengue fever

-� Human immunodeficiency virus infection

-� Klebsiella pneumoniae infection (invasive)

-� Leprosy

-� Lyme disease

-� Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection (invasive)

-� Respiratory syncytial virus infection

-� Rotavirus infection

-� Streptococcus group B infection (invasive)

-� Verotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection

-� West Nile fever

The commencement date for the Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Regulations is 21st September, 2011.

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