I find the losing the sense of smell after having a very long swab shoved up the nose to be intimately connected. I have never lost my sense of smell, ever but the good lady I have shared my life with some thirty odd years loses her tastebuds almost the instant she gets a cold but her sense of smell is unaffected.
Not sure what that means in regards to the swab seeming to take out the sense of smell, perhaps certain swabs are coated in something others aren't.
I've had flu twice in my life, the good lady once. Neither of us lost any of our senses but our bodies went into slow motion mode being literally full of ache to the point we couldn't walk for a couple of days and shuffling along on our backsides or crawling from bedroom to toilet and back was the best we could manage.
Kd755 (I think) posted a list of reportable diseases and I noticed that Actinobacter baumani was not on the list.
Here you are dear lady. These are the notifiable diseases for England. Failure to notify is a criminal offence backed up with harsh penalty.
I'll post the Week1 of 2021 instances list as soon as it is published
List of notifiable diseases
Diseases notifiable to local authority proper officers under the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010:
- Acute encephalitis
- Acute infectious hepatitis
- Acute meningitis
- Acute poliomyelitis
- Anthrax
- Botulism
- Brucellosis
- Cholera
- COVID-19
- Diphtheria
- Enteric fever (typhoid or paratyphoid fever)
- Food poisoning
- Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)
- Infectious bloody diarrhoea
- Invasive group A streptococcal disease
- Legionnaires’ disease
- Leprosy
- Malaria
- Measles
- Meningococcal septicaemia
- Mumps
- Plague
- Rabies
- Rubella
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
- Scarlet fever
- Smallpox
- Tetanus
- Tuberculosis
- Typhus
- Viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF)
- Whooping cough
- Yellow fever
Report other diseases that may present significant risk to human health under the category ‘other significant disease’.
Here is the CDC list
2020 National Notifiable Conditions
nthrax
Arboviral diseases, neuroinvasive and non-neuroinvasive
California serogroup virus diseases
Chikungunya virus disease
Eastern equine encephalitis virus disease
Powassan virus disease
St. Louis encephalitis virus disease
West Nile virus disease
Western equine encephalitis virus disease
Babesiosis
Botulism
Botulism, foodborne
Botulism, infant
Botulism, wound
Botulism, other
Brucellosis
Campylobacteriosis
Cancer
Candida auris, clinical
Carbapenemase Producing Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CP-CRE)
CP-CRE, Enterobacter spp.
CP-CRE, Escherichia coli (E. coli)
CP-CRE, Klebsiella spp.
Carbon monoxide poisoning
Chancroid
Chlamydia trachomatis infection
Cholera
Coccidioidomycosis
Congenital syphilis
Syphilitic stillbirth
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Cryptosporidiosis
Cyclosporiasis
Dengue virus infections
Dengue
Dengue-like illness
Severe dengue
Diphtheria
Ehrlichiosis and anaplasmosis
Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection
Ehrlichia chaffeensis infection
Ehrlichia ewingii infection
Undetermined human ehrlichiosis/anaplasmosis
Foodborne Disease Outbreak
Giardiasis
Gonorrhea
Haemophilus influenzae, invasive disease
Hansen's disease
Hantavirus infection, non-Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
Hemolytic uremic syndrome, post-diarrheal
Hepatitis A, acute
Hepatitis B, acute
Hepatitis B, chronic
Hepatitis B, perinatal virus infection
Hepatitis C, acute
Hepatitis C, chronic
Hepatitis C, perinatal infection
HIV infection (AIDS has been reclassified as HIV Stage III)
Influenza-associated pediatric mortality
Invasive pneumococcal disease
Lead, elevated blood levels
Lead, elevated blood levels, children (<16 Years)
Lead, elevated blood levels, adult (≥16 Years)
Legionellosis
Leptospirosis
Listeriosis
Lyme disease
Malaria
Measles
Meningococcal disease
Mumps
Novel influenza A virus infections
Pertussis
Pesticide-related illness and injury, acute
Plague
Poliomyelitis, paralytic
Poliovirus infection, nonparalytic
Psittacosis
Q fever
Q fever, acute
Q fever, chronic
Rabies, animal
Rabies, human
Rubella
Rubella, congenital syndrome
Salmonella Paratyphi infection (Salmonella enterica serotypes Paratyphi A, B [tartrate negative], and C [S. Paratyphi])
Salmonella Typhi infection (Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi)
Salmonellosis
Severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus disease
Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli
Shigellosis
Silicosis
Smallpox
Spotted fever rickettsiosis
Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome
Syphilis
Syphilis, primary
Syphilis, secondary
Syphilis, early non-primary non-secondary
Syphilis, unknown duration or late
Tetanus
Toxic shock syndrome (other than streptococcal)
Trichinellosis
Tuberculosis
Tularemia
Vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus and Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Varicella
Varicella deaths
Vibriosis
Viral hemorrhagic fever
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus
Ebola virus
Lassa virus
Lujo virus
Marburg virus
New World arenavirus – Guanarito virus
New World arenavirus – Junin virus
New World arenavirus – Machupo virus
New World arenavirus – Sabia virus
Waterborne Disease Outbreak
Yellow Fever
Zika virus disease and Zika virus infection
Zika virus disease, congenital
Zika virus disease, non-congenital
Zika virus infection, congenital
Zika virus infection, non-congenital