Horse Welfare Reportable Diseases

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Alabama

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Alaska

http://www.dec.state.ak.us/eh/docs/vet/Disease reporting 9-052.pdf

Any animal disease not known to exist in the United States, any disease for which a control program already exists, or any unexplained increase in the morbidity or mortality of any animal population must be reported. Any conditions caused by exposure to toxic substances that have or may have the potential to be an animal health, public health, or food safety threat must be reported immediately.

Immediate Reporting the discovery of, the existence of, or the suspected existence of the following foreign or eradicated diseases:

(1)African Horse Sickness; ;
(2) African Swine Fever;
(3) Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE);
(4) Caprine and Ovine Brucellosis (excluding B. ovis); (Wildebeest or foreign strain);
(5) Classical Swine Fever (Hog Cholera);
(6) Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia;
(7) Contagious Equine Metritis; ;
(8) Contagious Agalactia;
(9) Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia;
(10) Dourine;
(11) Enterovirus Encephalomyelitis (exotic strains);
(12) Epizootic Lymphangitis;
(13) Equine Piroplasmosis;
(14) Exotic Newcastle Disease;
(15) Foot and Mouth Disease (all types);
(16) Glanders;
(17) Heartwater;
(18) Horse Pox; Encephalomyelitis.

(19) Japanese Encephalitis

(20) Lumpy Skin Disease;

(21) Malignant Catarrhal Fever

(22) Nairobi Sheep Disease;

(23) Ovine Pulmonary Adenomatosis;

(24) Peste des Petits Ruminants

(25) Rabies

(26) Rift Valley Fever;

(27) Rinderpest;

(28) Salmonellosis (S. abortus ovis);

(29) Screwworm;

(30) Pox in sheep or goats;

(31) Surra (Trypanosoma evansi);

(32) Theileriasis;

(33) Trypanosomiasis;

(34) Venezuelan Equine

Report by the End of the Day the discovery of, the existence of, or the suspected existence of the following domestic animal diseases:

(1) Anthrax;
(2) Avian influenza (High or Low Pathogen);
(3) Swine Vesicular disease;

(4) Sylvatic Plague;

(5) Vesicular Stomatitis;

(6) West Nile virus.

Report by the Next Working Day after discovery of, the existence of, or the suspected existence of the following animal diseases (presence of clinical signs or positive diagnostic tests:

(1) Brucellosis;
(2) Contagious Ecthyma;
(3) Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD);
(4) Eastern or Western Equine Encephalitis;
(5) Equine Infectious Anemia
(6) Fowl Typhoid (Salmonella gallinarum);
(7) Infectious Coryza; .
(8) Infectious Bronchitis (Avian) bovis or M. avium);
(9) Laryngotracheitis (Avian Infectious);
(10) Lyme disease;

(11) Ornithosis or Psittacosis in birds;

(12) Pullorum Disease;

(13) Potomac Horse Fever;

(14) Pseudorabies;

(15) Scrapie;

(16) Tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis, M

(17) Tularemia

Report by the Fifth Working Day of Each Month the first case of the following animal diseases as diagnosed by laboratory procedures on any animal during the previous month:

(1) Anaplasmosis;
(2) Atrophic rhinitis;
(3) Babesiosis;
(4) Bovine Genital Campylobacteriosis; (Pasteurella multocida);
(5) Avian Infectious Bronchitis;
(6) Avian Tuberculosis;
(7) Caprine Arthritis/Encephalitis;
(8) Cysticercosis;
(9) Dermatophilosis (Dermatophilus congolensis);
(10) Duck Viral Enteritis;
(11) Duck Viral Hepatitis;
(12) Blue Tongue;
(13) Echinococcosis/Hydatidosis;
(14) Enzootic Abortion of Ewes (Chlamydia psittaci);
(15) Enzootic Bovine Leukosis;
(16) Equine Influenza (Virus type A); Syndrome;
(17) Equine Rhinopneumonitis (1 and 4);
(18) Equine Viral Arteritis;

(19) Fowl Cholera (Pasteurella multocida)

(20) Fowl Pox;

(21) Hemorrhagic Septicemia

(22) Horse Mange;

(23) Infectious Bursal Disease ;

(24) Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis

(25) Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis

(26) Leptospirosis;

(27) Ovine Progressive Pneumonia;

(28) Marek’s Disease

(29) Mycoplasma gallisepticum;

(30) Ovine Epididymitits (B. ovis);

(31) Paratuberculosis (Johne’s Disease);

(32) Porcine Reproductive / Respiratory

(33) Q Fever (Coxiella burnetti);

(34) Transmissible Gastroenteritis;
(35) Trichomoniasis.

Report by the Tenth Working Day of Each Month the first case of the following animal diseases where there are clinical signs or as diagnosed by a laboratory performing testing or diagnostic procedures on any animal during the previous month:

(1) Aleutian Disease in mink
(2) Avian Chlamydiosis;
(3) Blackleg (Clostridium chauvoei);
(4) Bovine Viral Diarrhea
(5) Botulism;
(6) Campylobateriosis;
(7) Cryptospordiosis (clinical cases only);
(8) Distemper in dogs or mink;
(9) Edema Disease;
(10) Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis;
(11) Erysipelas;
(12) Feline Panleukopenia;
(15) Heartworm;
(16) Histoplasmosis;
(17) Influenza in swine or equine;
(19) Bovine Leukosis;

(21) Listeriosis;

(22) Malignant Edema in equine or cattle;

(23) Malignant Catarrhal Fever (Sheep associated strain);

(24) Mycotic Stomatitis;

(26) Newcastle Disease (lentogenic or low pathogenic strain);

(28) Salmonellosis

(29) Scabies in swine or other small animals (Psoroptic mange);

(30) Strangles (S. equi);

(31) Tetanus (C. tetani);

(32) Transmissible Encephalopathy in mink

(33) Toxoplasmosis

(34) Trichomoniasis.

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Arizona

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Arkansas

http://www.arlpc.org/regs/ReportableDiseases.pdf

Act 87 of 1963-Code 2-33-101 and Act 150 of 1985-Code 19-6-448

The diseases listed below are to be reported immediately to the Arkansas State Veterinarian’s Office and/or USDA, Veterinary Services:

LIST A

Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD, Viruses 0, A, C, SAT 1, SAT 2, SAT 3, Asia 1, or not typed)
Vesicular Stomatitis (VS, Viruses Indiana, New Jersey, or not typed), B, E, P
Swine Vesicular Disease
Rinderpest
Peste des Petits Ruminants
Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia
Lumpy Skin Disease
Rift Valley Fever
Bluetongue
Sheep Pox and Goat Pox
African Horse Sickness
African Swine Fever
Classical Swine Fever (Hog Cholera)
Fowl Plague (Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza)
Newcastle Disease (Exotic)

LIST B MULTIPLE SPECIES

Anthrax
Aujesky’s Disease (Pseudorabies)
Echinococcosis/Hydatidosis
Heartwater
Leptospirosis
Q Fever Rabies
Paratuberculosis (Johne’s Disease)
New and Old World Screwworm
Trichinelosis

EQUINE
Contagious Equine Metritis
Dourine
Epizootic Lymphangitis
Equine Encephalomyelitis (Eastern-EEE and Western-WEE)
Equine Infectious Anemia
Equine Influenza (Virus Type A)
Equine Piroplasmosis
Equine Rhinopneumonitis (EVH-1 and EVH-4)
Glanders
Horse Pox
Equine Viral Arteritis (EVA)
Japanese Encephalitis
Horse Mange
Surra
Venezuelan Equine Encephalomyelitis (VEE)

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California

http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/ahfss/ah/pdfs/CA_reportable_disease_list_05292002.pdf

Report to AHB or VS Employee within 24 Hours of Discovery

MULTIPLE SPECIES
Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)
Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever
Livestock exposed to toxic substances which may threaten public health
Screwworm myiasis (Cochliomyia hominivorax or Chrysomya bezziana)
Unexplained increase in dead or diseased animals

EQUINE (see web site for other species)
African horse sickness
Dourine (Trypanosoma equiperdum)
Equine piroplasmosis (Babesia equi, B. caballi)
Glanders (Farcy) (Pseudomonas mallei)
Hendra virus (Equine morbillivirus)
Japanese encephalitis
Surra (Trypanosoma evansi)
Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis
Vesicular stomatitis

Report to AHB or VS Employee within Two Days of Discovery

MULTIPLE SPECIES

Rabies of livestock
Tularemia

EQUINE
Contagious equine metritis (Taylorella equigenitalis)
Equine encephalomyelitis (Eastern and Western equine encephalitis)
Equine infectious anemia (Swamp fever)
West Nile Virus

Report by Monthly Summaries from Diagnostic Facilities

MULTIPLE SPECIES
Avian tuberculosis (Mycobacterium avium)
Echinococcosis/Hydatidosis (Echinococcus species)
Leptospirosis
Leishmaniosis

EQUINE
Equine influenza
Equine rhinopneumonitis (Equine herpesvirus-1)
Equine viral arteritis

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