Disease Notification
Synonyms
Disease Notifications
Disease Reporting, Infectious
Disease Reportings, Infectious
Exposure Notification
Exposure Notifications
Infectious Disease Reporting
Infectious Disease Reportings
Notification, Disease
Notification, Exposure
Notifications, Disease
Notifications, Exposure
Reporting, Infectious Disease
Reportings, Infectious Disease
Notification or reporting by a physician or other health care provider of the occurrence of specified contagious diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV infections to designated public health agencies. The United States system of reporting notifiable diseases evolved from the Quarantine Act of 1878, which authorized the US Public Health Service to collect morbidity data on cholera, smallpox, and yellow fever; each state in the US has its own list of notifiable diseases and depends largely on reporting by the individual health care provider. (From Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992)
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