Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Regulations 2020

JurisdictionIreland
CitationIR SI 53/2020
Year2020

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 28th February, 2020.

The Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 5 , 29 and 31 of the Health Act 1947 (No. 28 of 1947) hereby makes the following regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Regulations 2020.

2. In these Regulations, “Regulations of 2007” means the Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Regulations 2007 ( S.I. No. 559 of 2007 ).

3. The Infectious Diseases Regulations 1981 ( S.I. No. 390 of 1981 ) are amended -

(a) in Regulation 8 (amended by Regulation 4(3) of the Regulations of 2007) by the insertion before “diphtheria” of “Covid-19,”,

(b) in Regulation 14(1)(b) (amended by Regulation 4(6) of the Regulations of 2007) by the insertion before “diphtheria” of “Covid-19,”,

(c) in Regulation 15(2)(a) (amended by Regulation 4(7) of the Regulations of 2007) by the insertion before “diphtheria” of “Covid-19,”, and

(d) by the substitution of the following Schedule for the Schedule (amended by Regulation 2(b) of the Infectious Diseases (Amendment) Regulations 2018 ( S.I. No. 567 of 2018 )) 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

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

Covid-19

SARS-CoV-2

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

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...

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