Notifiable diseases

According the Communicable Diseases Act and the Communicable Diseases Ordinance a number of diseases are notifiable in Sweden.

The notifiable diseases also fall into different categories: subject to mandatory contact tracing, dangerous to public health and dangerous to society.

Table: Notifiable diseases
Disease Notifiable Subject to mandatory contact tracing Dangerous to public health Dangerous to society
Anthrax X X X
Atypical mycobacteria infection X
Avian influenza A(H5N1) X X X
Beta-hemolytic streptococcus Group A invasive infection X
Botulism X X
Brucellosis X X
Campylobacteriosis X X X
Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae infection X X
Chlamydial infection X X X
Cholera X X X
COVID-19 X
Cryptosporidiosis X X
Dengue fever X
Diphtheria X X X
Ebola virus infection X X X X
Echinococcosis X X
Entamoeba histolytica infection X X
Enterohaemorrhagic E.coli (EHEC) infection X X X
Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae infection X
Giardiasis X X X
Gonorrhoea X X X
Haemophilus influenzae, invasive disease X
Hepatitis A X X X
Hepatitis B X X X
Hepatitis C X X X
Hepatitis D X X X
Hepatitis E X X X
HIV infection X X X
HTLV I or II infection X X X
Influenza X
Legionella infection X X
Leptospirosis X
Listeriosis X X
Malaria X
Marburg virus disease X X X X
Measles X X
Meningococcal disease, invasive X
Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection X X X
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome – MERS X X
Mpox X X X
Mumps X X
Paratyphoid fever X X X
Pertussis X X
Plague X X X
Pneumococcal invasive disease X
Pneumococcus with reduced susceptibility to penicillin infection X X X
Poliomyelitis X X X
Psittacosis/Ornithosis X X
Puumala virus infection (nephropathia epidemica) X
Q fever X
Rabies X X X
Rotavirus infection X
Rubella X X
Salmonellosis X X X
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome – SARS X X X X
Shigellosis X X X
Smallpox X X X X
Syphilis X X X
Syfilis X X X
Tetanus X
Trichinellosis X X
Tuberculosis X X X
Tularaemia X
Typhoid fever X X X
Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) infection X X
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease X
Vibrio infection, excluding cholera X X
Viral haemorrhagic fevers, excluding dengue fever and nephropathia epidemica
(see Ebola virus infection)
X X X
Viral meningoencephalitis X
Yellow fever X
Yersiniosis X X