Status of Reportable Diseases in the United States
The following tables show the United States' status for animal diseases that are reported to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) if they are confirmed to be present in specific livestock, poultry, and aquaculture species. This information is reported to OIE every six months and is also presented on the international OIE website.
Report date: 5/1/08
Contents:
- Diseases Associated with Multiple Species
- Cattle Diseases
- Sheep and Goat Diseases
- Equine Diseases
- Swine Diseases
- Avian Diseases
- Lagomorph Diseases
- Bee Diseases
- Other Listed Diseases
- Aquaculture Diseases - Fish
- Aquaculture Diseases - Molluscs
- Aquaculture Diseases - Crustaceans
Diseases Associated with Multiple Species:
| Disease | Status | Date of Last Occurrence / Notes | |
| Anthrax | Present | Sporadic / limited distribution | |
| Aujeszky's disease | Present | Sporadic (feral; wild animals) / limited distribution, national eradication program | |
| Echinococcosis / Hydatidosis | ? | Sporadic (uncommon in all species) | |
| Heartwater | Free | Never occurred | |
| Leptospirosis | Present | ||
| Q fever | Present | Sporadic | |
| Rabies | Present | ||
| Paratuberculosis | Present | National control program | |
| New World Screwworm | Free | 1982/animal health officials responded to an imported case in a canine in 2007 | |
| Old World Screwworm | Free |
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| Trichinellosis | Present | Sporadic (feral; wild animals) / limited distribution / national control program | |
| Food-and-Mouth disease | Free | 1929 | |
| Vesicular stomatitis | Seasonal | 2006 / Sporadic / limited distribution / no detections reported in 2007 | |
| Bluetongue | Present | Sporadic / limited distribution | |
| Rift Valley fever | Free | Never occurred | |
| Brucellosis (Brucella abortus) | ? | Sporadic -One domestic cattle herd detection in 2007 (wild animals)/ limited distribution / national eradication program | |
| Brucellosis (Brucella melitensis) | Free | 1999 | |
| Brucellosis (Brucella suis) | Present | Sporadic (feral-transitional only) / limited distribution / national control program | |
| Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever | Free | Never occurred | |
| Japanese encephalitis | Free | Never occurred | |
| West Nile fever / encephalitis | Present | ||
| Rinderpest | Free | Never occurred | |
| Tularemia | Present | Sporadic (primarily wild animals) / limited distribution |
Disease |
Status |
Date of Last Occurrence / Notes |
Bovine anaplasmosis |
Present |
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Bovine babesiosis |
Present |
Limited distribution (endemic in the territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands; last occurrence on the U.S. mainland was in 1943) |
Bovine genital campylobacteriosis |
Present |
Sporadic / limited distribution |
Bovine tuberculosis |
Present |
Sporadic / limited distribution / national eradication program |
Bovine viral diarrhea |
Present |
|
Lumpy skin disease |
Free |
Never occurred |
Enzootic bovine leucosis |
Present |
|
Hemorrhagic septicemia |
? |
Sporadic / limited distribution (bison) / no detections reported in 2007 |
Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis / infectious pustular vulvovaginitis |
Present |
|
Theileriosis |
Free |
Never occurred |
Trichomonosis |
Present |
|
Trypanosomosis |
Free |
Never occurred |
Malignant catarrhal fever (Wildebeest only) |
Free |
Never occurred |
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy |
Controlled risk |
No detection in 2007 |
Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia |
Free |
1892 |
Disease |
Status |
Date of Last Occurrence / Notes |
Ovine epididymitis (Brucella ovis) |
Present |
Sporadic |
Caprine arthritis / encephalitis |
Present |
|
Contagious agalactia |
Present |
Sporadic (non Mediterranean form) / limited distribution |
Contagious Caprine pleuropneumonia |
Free |
Never occurred |
Enzootic abortion of ewes (ovine chlamydiosis) |
Present |
Sporadic / limited distribution |
Nairobi sheep disease |
Free |
Never occurred |
Salmonellosis (S. abortusovis) |
? |
Sporadic / limited distribution /no detections reported in 2007 |
Scrapie |
Present |
National eradication program |
Maedi-visna |
Present |
Sporadic / limited distribution |
Peste des petits ruminants |
Free |
Never occurred |
Sheep pox and goat pox |
Free |
Never occurred |
Disease |
Status |
Date of Last Occurrence / Notes |
Contagious equine metritis |
Free |
2006 -import associated |
Dourine |
Free |
1934 |
Equine encephalomyelitis (Eastern) |
Present |
Sporadic / limited distribution |
Equine encephalomyelitis (Western) |
? |
Sporadic / limited distribution / No detections reported in 2007 |
Equine infectious anemia |
Present |
Sporadic / limited distribution / National control program |
Equine influenza |
Present |
|
Equine piroplasmosis |
Present |
Limited distribution (limited to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands) |
Equine rhinopneumonitis |
Present |
Sporadic |
Glanders |
Free |
1942 |
Equine viral arteritis |
Present |
Sporadic / limited distribution |
Surra (Trypanosoma evansi) |
Free |
Never occurred |
Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis |
Free |
1971 |
African horse sickness |
Free |
Never occurred |
Disease |
Status |
Date of Last Occurrence / Notes |
Nipah virus encephalitis |
Free |
Never occurred |
Porcine brucellosis (B. suis) |
Present |
Sporadic (feral, wild animals) / limited distribution / national eradication program |
Porcine cysticercosis |
Free |
2004 |
Transmissible gastroenteritis |
Present |
|
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome |
Present |
|
Swine vesicular disease |
Free |
Never occurred |
African swine fever |
Free |
Never occurred |
Classical swine fever |
Free |
1976 |
Disease |
Status |
Date of Last Occurrence / Notes |
Avian infectious bronchitis |
Present |
|
Avian infectious laryngotracheitis |
Present |
Sporadic (primarily vaccine-related) |
Turkey rhinotracheitis |
Present |
Sporadic / limited distribution |
Duck viral hepatitis |
Free |
1998 |
Low pathogenic avian influenza (poultry) |
Present |
Sporadic (wildlife, backyard, live bird markets)/ routine surveillance detected three non-clinical events in three commercial flocks in 2007 |
Fowl cholera |
Present |
|
Fowl typhoid |
Free |
1981 |
Infectious bursal disease (Gumboro disease) |
Present |
|
Marek's disease |
Present |
|
Avian mycoplasmosis (M. gallisepticum) |
Present |
Sporadic / limited distribution |
Avian mycoplasmosis (M. synoviae ) |
Present |
Sporadic / limited distribution |
Avian chlamydiosis |
Present |
Sporadic (wild birds, pet birds, backyard poultry) |
Pullorum disease |
? |
Sporadic / limited distribution (commercial production flocks are free) /no detections reported in 2007 |
Highly pathogenic avian influenza |
Free |
2004 |
Newcastle disease (Neurotropic and viscerotropic strains ) |
Free |
2003 |
Disease |
Status |
Date of Last Occurrence / Notes |
Myxomatosis |
? |
|
Rabbit hemorrhagic disease |
Free |
2005 |
Disease |
Status |
Date of Last Occurrence / Notes |
Acarapisosis of honey bees |
Present |
|
American foulbrood of honey bees |
Present |
|
European foulbrood of honey bees |
Present |
|
Varroosis of honey bees |
Present |
|
Tropilaelaps infestation of honey bees |
Free |
Never occurred |
Small hive beetle infestation (Aethina tumida) |
Present |
Sporadic / limited distribution |
Disease |
Status |
Date of Last Occurrence / Notes |
Leishmaniosis |
? |
Sporadic (canine) / limited distribution |
Camelpox |
Free |
Never occurred |
Disease |
Status |
Date of Last Occurrence / Notes |
Viral hemorrhagic septicaemia |
Present |
Sporadic (wild species) / limited distribution |
Spring viremia of carp |
Present |
Sporadic (wild species)/ limited distribution |
Infectious hematopoietic necrosis |
Present |
Sporadic / limited distribution |
Epizootic hematopoietic necrosis |
Free |
Never occurred |
Infectious salmon anemia |
Free |
2006 |
Epizootic ulcerative syndrome |
Free |
2004 (wild species) |
Gyrodactylosis (Gyrodactylus salaries) |
Free |
Never occurred |
Red sea bream iridoviral disease |
Free |
Never occurred |
Koi herpesvirus disease |
Present |
|
Aquaculture Diseases - Molluscs
Disease |
Status |
Date of Last Occurrence / Notes |
Infection with Bonamia ostreae |
Free |
2006 |
Infection with Bonamia exitosus |
Free |
Never occurred |
Infection with Perkinsus marinus |
Present |
Sporadic (wild species) / limited distribution |
Infection with Perkinsus olseni |
Present |
Confirmed infection, no clinical disease |
Infection with Marteilla refringens |
Free |
Never occurred |
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Infection with Mikrocytos roughleyi |
Free |
Never occurred |
Infection with Xenohaliotis californiensis |
Free |
2006 |
Abalone viral mortality |
Free |
Never occurred |
Aquaculture Diseases - Crustaceans
Disease |
Status |
Date of Last Occurrence / Notes |
Taura syndrome |
Present |
Sporadic /limited distribution (Hawaii, routine surveillance detected one non-clinical event in 2007) |
White spot disease |
Present |
Sporadic/ limited distribution (2007-Louisiana; through expanded surveillance activities, WSSV in crayfish considered endemic in Louisiana) |
Yellowhead disease |
Free |
|
Tetrahedral baculovirosis (Baculovirus penaei) |
Free |
2006 |
Spherical baculovirosis (Penaeus monodon-type baculovirus) |
Free |
Never occurred |
Infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis |
Free |
|
Crayfisih plague (Aphanomyces astaci) |
Free |
|
Sporadic = occurring only occasionally
Limited distribution = limited geographic distribution
? = presence of the diseases suspected but not confirmed