Localized disease diseases. Some diseases are capable of changing from local to disseminated diseases. Pneumonia, for example, is generally confined to one or both lungs but can become disseminated through sepsis, in which the microbe responsible for the pneumonia "seeds" the bloodstream or lymphatic system and is transported to distant sites in the body. When that occurs, the process is no longer described as a localized disease, but rather as a disseminated disease. Localized disease A localized disease is an infectious or neoplastic process that originates in and is confined to one organ system or general area in the body, such as
Notifiable disease UK is regulated under the "Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984" and "Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1988". The governing body is Public Health England List of Notifiable Diseases can be found here . There are also requirements for notification specific to children in the "National standards for under 8s day care and childminding" that state: "Office for Standards in Education should be notified of any food poisoning affecting two or more children looked after on the premises, any child having meningitis or the outbreak on the premises of any notifiable disease identified as such in the Public Health