Infectious diseases; notification

In terms of infection protection, notifiable communicable diseases and notifiable evidence of pathogens are reported to the public health department. These are then forwarded by the public health department to the Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety (LGL) and from there to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). The aim is to prevent communicable diseases in humans, detect infections at an early stage and prevent them from spreading.

The Infection Protection Act (IfSG) obliges doctors in medical practices, hospitals and laboratories, for example, to notify the health authorities. A distinction is made between named notifications and non-named notifications.

• Notification by name: Doctors and medical diagnostic laboratories in particular, but also certain institutions and companies, are obliged to report the diseases and evidence of pathogens listed in the law or corresponding suspected cases to the locally responsible health authorities. The reports are mainly made electronically via DEMIS (German Electronic Reporting and Information System for Infection Protection). If electronic reporting is not yet possible, the reporting forms required for reporting are provided by the LGL.
  The report by doctors or laboratories is made by name, i.e. with the name of the person concerned and their contact details, so that the public health department can make contact, check the facts and, if necessary, take infection protection measures. The data is transmitted by the public health department to the LGL as the responsible state authority and from there to the RKI without passing on the name and contact details (pseudonymized).
• Non-named notifications: The pathogen detections mentioned in § 7 Para. 3 IfSG, e.g. the AIDS pathogen HIV, are reported directly to the RKI by the laboratory without naming the person concerned (without mentioning their personal data). The RKI provides special laboratory reporting forms for this purpose.

Please use the online service via the button above to report notifiable diseases in accordance with Section 34 of the Infection Protection Act.

To contact the responsible office, please use the secure contact form or the encrypted e-mail. Both services can also be accessed via the buttons above.

You will find the following documents under Forms:

• Doctor's notification form: Notifiable disease according to §§ 6, 8, 9 IfSG.
• Laboratory notification form: Detection of pathogens according to §§ 7, 8, 9 IfSG.
• Notification form for Lyme borreliosis.
• Notification form for community facilities: Notifiable diseases according to § 34 Infection Protection Act.
• Recommendation for re-admission to community facilities.

You will also find a link to the RKI page "Recommendations for re-admission to community facilities" under the further links.

A notifiable infectious disease or a notifiable event has occurred.

The deadlines are based on § 9 ff. of the Infection Protection Act.

• Doctor's notification form: Notifiable disease according to §§ 6, 8, 9 IfSG
• Recommendation for re-admission to community facilities
• Laboratory notification form: Detection of pathogens according to §§ 7, 8, 9 IfSG
• Notification form for Lyme borreliosis

  in accordance with the Ordinance on the Extension of the Obligation to Report Other Communicable Diseases or Pathogens of January 23, 2013 (form for the doctor)

• Notification forms of the RKI according to § 7 paragraph 3 IfSG
• Notification form for community facilities: Notifiable diseases according to § 34 Infection Protection Act
• Notification forms from the Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety in accordance with the Infection Protection Act
• Transmission forms for health authorities for notifiable diseases (only to be completed by health authorities!)

• § Section 5 Extension of reporting obligations under the Infection Protection Act - Ordinance on the State Health Administration and Public Health Protection (GesV)
• §§ 6 ff. Act on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases in Humans (Infection Protection Act - IfSG)

• Recommendation for re-admission to community facilities

  In community facilities such as schools and daycare centers, infants, children and adolescents come into close contact with each other and the staff caring for them on a daily basis. Close contact favors the transmission of pathogens. In addition, certain diseases sometimes cause particularly severe courses of illness in children. For this reason, the Infection Protection Act (IfSG) provides for special regulations for children and adults caring for them in communal facilities.

• Infectious diseases A-Z

Persons obliged to report must complete an electronic notification or a notification form and - depending on the disease - report it to the responsible health authority or the RKI.

The public health department forwards the pseudonymized data of the report to the LGL, which in turn forwards it to the RKI.