Why is it in News?
→ Delhi government declared human rabies a notifiable disease.
→ Aim is to achieve zero human deaths from dog-mediated rabies.
Important Points:
- Declared under the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897.
- All public and private healthcare providers must report cases.
- Reporting includes suspected, probable, and confirmed cases.
- Surveillance conducted under Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP).
- IDSP is managed by National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
- Rabies joined list of recently notified diseases like snakebite (2024).
- India lacks a uniform national list of notifiable diseases.
- States and UTs have authority to notify diseases.