notifiable
adjective
no·ti·fi·able
ˌnō-tə-ˈfī-ə-bəl 
ˈnō-tə-ˌfī-
: required by law to be reported to official health authorities
a notifiable disease
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There is no federal data on the number of Chagas cases in the United States because the disease is not a nationally notifiable disease requiring health care providers to report cases to local and state health departments.
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Greta Cross, Freep.com, 17 Sep. 2025
There is no federal data on the number of Chagas diseases in the United States, as the disease is not a nationally notifiable disease, in which healthcare providers must report cases to local and state health departments.
—Greta Cross, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
While measles was first observed and recorded by a Persian doctor in the ninth century, the disease wasn’t a nationally notifiable disease in the United States until 1912, according to the CDC.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2025
The Protective Power of Vaccination To quantify the impact of vaccines, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Johns Hopkins University digitized all weekly surveillance reports of nationally notifiable diseases for U.S. cities and states published between 1888 and 2011.
—Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
Advocacy groups, including Stop Foodborne Illness, Consumer Reports and the Environmental Working Group, have pushed hard for these changes in the FDA’s food safety program as well as for cronobacter to become a nationally notifiable disease.
—Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
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Greta Cross, Freep.com, 17 Sep. 2025
There is no federal data on the number of Chagas diseases in the United States, as the disease is not a nationally notifiable disease, in which healthcare providers must report cases to local and state health departments.
—Greta Cross, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
While measles was first observed and recorded by a Persian doctor in the ninth century, the disease wasn’t a nationally notifiable disease in the United States until 1912, according to the CDC.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2025
The Protective Power of Vaccination To quantify the impact of vaccines, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Johns Hopkins University digitized all weekly surveillance reports of nationally notifiable diseases for U.S. cities and states published between 1888 and 2011.
—Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
Advocacy groups, including Stop Foodborne Illness, Consumer Reports and the Environmental Working Group, have pushed hard for these changes in the FDA’s food safety program as well as for cronobacter to become a nationally notifiable disease.
—Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
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notifiable
adjective
no·ti·fi·able
ˈnōt-ə-ˌfī-ə-bəl, ˌnōt-ə-ˈ
: required by law to be reported to official health authorities
a notifiable disease
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