Target diseases of the Infectious Diseases Control Law revised on November 5, 2003
(Reportable infectious diseases of categories I to V under the National Epidemiological Surveillance of Infectious Diseases)

Category I (to be notified all the cases promptly after diagnosis)
Category II (to be notified all the cases promptly after diagnosis)
Category III (to be notified all the cases promptly after diagnosis)
New category IV (to be notified all the cases promptly after diagnosis)
    Anthrax*
    Avian influenza virus infection*
    Botulism*
    Brucellosis*
    Coccidioidomycosis*
    Dengue fever*
    Echinococcosis*
    Epidemic typhus*
    Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome*
    Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome*
    Hepatitis A
    Hepatitis E*
    Herpes B virus infection*
    Japanese encephalitis*
    Japanese spotted fever*
    Legionellosis*
    Leptospirosis*
    Lyme disease*
    Lyssavirus infection (excluding rabies)*
    Malaria
    Monkeypox*
    Nipah virus infection*
    Psittacosis*
    Q fever*
    Rabies*
    Relapsing fever*
    Scrub typhus (Tsutsugamushi disease)*
    Tularemia*
    West Nile fever (including West Nile encephalitis)*
    Yellow fever*
a. Diseases to be notified all the cases by all physicians within 7days after diagnosis

b. Diseases to be reported by the sentinel clinics and hospitals
   <Influenza sentinel> (weekly report)
   <Pediatric disease sentinel> (weekly report)
   <Eye disease sentinel> (weekly report)
   <Sexually transmitted disease (STD) sentinel> (monthly report)
   <sentinel hospital>
      (weekly report)
      (monthly report)

The disease added or changed in this revision.
* Target disease of infectious agent surveillance