Glossary

Notifiable diseases

Infectious diseases that are required by the Federal Law on the Prevention of Infectious Diseases in Humans (IfSG) to be reported to the competent public health department, which transmits the information to the Robert Koch-Institute (RKI), if necessary. The IfSG stipulates which diseases need to be reported upon suspicion, when an outbreak occurs, or when an infected person dies.

Notification categoryNumber of cases
Acinetobacter784
Adenovirus676
Arbovirus14
Botulism9
Brucellosis37
Campylobacter67.872
Chickenpox20.448
Chikungunyavirus26
Cholera0
CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease)78
C. difficile2.824
Dengue fever613
Diphteria26
Echinococcosis155
EHEC (enterohemorrhagic E. coli)2.226
Enterobacteriaceae3.998
TBE (tick-borne encephalitis)583
Yellow fever3
Giardiasis3.411
Haemophilus influenzae851
Hantavirus235
Hepatitis A1.043
Hepatitis B4.507
Hepatitis C5.891
Hepatitis D59
Hepatitis E3.396
HIV2.818
HUS68
Influenza274.242
Pertussis (whooping cough)12.907
Cryptosporidiosis1.810
Legionellosis1.443
Leptospirosis117
Listeriosis701
Malaria896
Measles543
Meningococcal disease295
Mumps534
MRSA2.424
Norovirus77.583
Ornithosis9
Paratyphoid fever29
Q-fever93
Rotavirus23.603
Rubella16
Salmonellosis13.529
Shigellosis675
Syphilis7.332
Toxoplasmosis17
Tuberkulosis5.429
Tularaemia54
Typhoid fever58
Yersiniosis2.384
Zikavirus18

Source: Infektionsepidemiologisches Jahrbuch meldepflichtiger Krankheiten für 2018, Robert Koch Institut; Datenstand: 01.03.2019

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