S.I. No. 567/2018 - Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Regulations 2018

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Regulations 2018.

2. The Infectious Diseases Regulations 1981 (

S.I. No. 390 of 1981

) are amended—

(

a

) in Regulation 14, by the deletion of paragraph (2) (amended by Regulation 4 of the Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (

S.I. No. 559 of 2007

)), and

(

b

) by the substitution of the following Schedule for the Schedule (amended by Regulation 2 of the Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (

S.I. No. 276 of 2016

)) 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

Disease

Causative Pathogen

Brucellosis

Brucella species

Campylobacter infection

Campylobacter species

Carbapenemase producing enterobacteriaceae, infection or colonisation

Enterobacteriaceae

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

Disease

Causative Pathogen

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

Herpes simplex (neonatal)

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

mcr-positive Enterobacteriaceae infection or colonisation

Enterobacteriaceae

Disease

Causative Pathogen

Measles

Measles virus

Meningococcal disease

Neisseria meningitidis

Mumps

Mumps virus

Non-specific urethritis

Novel or Rare Antimicrobial-resistant Organism (NRAO)

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)

Disease

Causative Pathogen

Streptococcus group A infection (invasive)

Streptococcus pyogenes (blood, CSF or other normally sterile site)

Streptococcus group B infection (invasive)

Streptococcus 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,

18 December 2018.

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 Regulation 14 of the Infectious Diseases Regulations 1981 (

S.I. No. 390 of 1981

) by the deletion of paragraph (2) (amended by Regulation 4 of the Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (

S.I. No. 559 of 2007

)), the effect of which is to require both confirmed or suspected cases of Creutzfeld Jakob disease and variant Creutzfeld Jakob disease which are diagnosed to be reported to the medical officer of health, in line with all other diseases listed on the Schedule to the Infectious Diseases Regulations 1981.

These Regulations also amend the Schedule to the Infectious Diseases Regulations 1981 (as amended) to include Carbapenemase producing enterobacteriaceae, Herpes simplex (neonatal), mcr-positive Enterobacteriaceae, and Novel or Rare Antimicrobial-resistant Organisms as additional infectious diseases which are required to be notified.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

28

th December

, 2018.

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