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Animal Health Monitoring & Surveillance

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.

Contents:

Diseases Associated with Multiple Species:

Disease Status Date of Last Occurrence / Notes
Anthrax Present Sporadic / limited distribution
Aujeszky's disease Present Sporadic (feral transitional only) / limited distribution/national eradication program
Bluetongue Present Sporadic / limited distribution
Brucellosis (Brucella abortus) Present Sporadic / limited distribution, primarily limited to wildlife in certain limited areas (Greater Yellowstone National Park Area) / national eradication program
Brucellosis (Brucella melitensis) Free 1999
Brucellosis (Brucella suis) Present Sporadic (feral-transitional only) / limited distribution / national eradication program
Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever Free Never occurred
Echinococcosis/hydatidosis ? Sporadic (uncommon in all species) / no detections reported in 2008
Foot-and-mouth disease Free 1929
Heartwater Free Never occurred
Japanese encephalitis Free Never occurred
Leptospirosis Present  
New world screwworm Free 1982 / animal health officials responded to an imported case in a canine in 2007
Old world screwworm Free Never occurred / animal health officials responded to an imported case in a canine in 2007
Paratuberculosis (Johne's Disease) Present National control program
Q fever Present Sporadic
Rabies Present  
Rift Valley fever Free Never occurred
Rinderpest Free Never occurred
Trichinellosis ? Sporadic (feral, wild animals) / limited distribution / national control program/ no detections reported in 2008
Tularemia Present Sporadic (primarily wild animals)/limited distribution
Vesicular stomatitis Absent During Reporting Period last detection in 2006
West Nile fever/encephalitis Present Equine-6 cases in four States and PR (as of July 9, 2008)

Cattle Diseases

Disease

Status

Date of Last Occurrence / Notes

Bovine anaplasmosis Present  
Bovine babesiosis Free Limited distribution (endemic in territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands; last occurrence on the U.S. mainland was in 1943)
Bovine genital campylobacteriosis ? Sporadic / limited distribution / no detections reported in 2008
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy Controlled risk Last detection in 2006
Bovine tuberculosis Present Sporadic/limited distribution/national eradication program
Bovine viral diarrhea Present  
Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia Free 1892
Enzootic bovine leukosis Present  
Haemorrhagic septicaemia ? Sporadic / limited distribution (bison) / no detections reported in 2008
Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis/ infectious pustular vulvovaginitis Present  
Lumpy skin diseases Free Never occurred
Malignant catarrhal fever (Wildebeest only) Present One event April 2008 in multifaceted cattle producing ranch (OIE Immediate Report)
Theileriosis Free Never occurred
Trichomonosis Present  
Trypanosomosis Free Never occurred

Sheep and Goat Diseases

Disease

Status

Date of Last Occurrence / Notes

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
Maedi-visna Present Sporadic/limited distribution
Nairobi sheep diseases Free Never occurred
Ovine epididymitis (Brucella ovis) Present Sporadic/limited distribution
Peste des petits ruminants Free Never occurred
Salmonellosis (S. abortusovis) Present Sporadic / limited distribution / no detections reported in 2008
Scrapie Present National eradication program
Sheep pox and goat pox Free Never occurred

Equine Diseases

Disease

Status

Date of Last Occurrence / Notes

African horse sickness Free Never occurred
Contagious equine metritis Free 2006-import associated
Dourine Free 1934
Equine encephalomyelitis (Eastern) Present Sporadic / limited distribution / Equine cases: 63 cases in three States (as of July 9, 2008)
Equine encephalomyelitis (Western) ? Sporadic / limited distribution / no detections in 2008
Equine infectious anemia Present Sporadic / limited distribution / national control program
Equine influenza Present Sporadic / limited distribution
Equine piroplasmosis Absent During Reporting Period Limited distribution (limited to Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands, last occurrence on U.S. mainland was 1978)
Equine rhinopneumonitis Present Sporadic / limited distribution
Equine viral arteritis Present Sporadic / limited distribution
Glanders Free 1942
Surra (Trypanosoma evansi) Free Never occurred
Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis Free 1971

Swine Diseases

Disease

Status

Date of Last Occurrence / Notes

African swine fever Free Never occurred
Classical swine fever (hog cholera) Free 1976
Nipah virus encephalitis Free Never occurred
Porcine cysticercosis Absent During Reporting Period 2004
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome Present  
Swine vesicular disease Free Never occurred
Transmissible gastroenteritis Present  

Avian Diseases

Disease

Status

Date of Last Occurrence / Notes

Avian chlamydiosis Present Sporadic (wild birds, pet birds, backyard)/limited distribution
Avian infectious bronchitis Present  
Avian infectious laryngotracheitis Present Sporadic (primarily vaccine-related)/limited distribution
Avian mycoplasmosis (M. gallisepticum) Present Sporadic/limited distribution/All commercial poultry breeding flocks are under a surveillance program to confirm infection-free status.  Commercial table-egg laying may be vaccinated.
Avian mycoplasmosis (M. synoviae) Present Sporadic/limited distribution/All commercial poultry breeding flocks are under a surveillance program to confirm infection-free status.  Commercial table-egg laying may be vaccinated.
Duck viral hepatitis Free 1998
Fowl cholera (Pasteurella multocida) Present  
Fowl typhoid (Salmonella gallinarum) Free 1981
Highly pathogenic avian influenza Free 2004
Low pathogenic avian influenza (poultry) Identification of the presence of infection/infestation One non clinical event June 2008, H7N3,identified on routine pre-slaughter surveillance as part of the National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP) Avian Influenza Clean Program (OIE Immediate Report)
Infectious bursal disease (Gumboro disease) Present Sporadic/limited distribution
Marek's disease Present  
Newcastle disease (Neurotropic and viscerotropic strains) Free 2003
Pullorum disease (Salmonella pullorum) ? Sporadic / limited distribution (commercial production flocks are free; disease may occur in some backyard poultry) / no detections reported in 2008
Turkey rhinotracheitis Present Sporadic / limited distribution

Lagomorph Diseases

Disease

Status

Date of Last Occurrence / Notes

Myxomatosis ? No detections reported in 2008
Rabbit hemorrhagic disease Present One event February 2008 in a non commercial, pet related incident (OIE Immediate Report)

Bee Diseases

Disease

Status

Date of Last Occurrence / Notes

Acarapisosis of honey bees Present Sporadic/limited distribution
American foulbrood of honey bees Present  
European foulbrood of honey bees Present  
Small hive beetle infestation (Aethina tumida) Present Sporadic/limited distribution
Tropilaelaps infestation of honey bees Free Never occurred
Varroosis of honey bees Present  

Other Listed Diseases

Disease

Status

Date of Last Occurrence / Notes

Leishmaniosis ? No detections reported in 2008
Camelpox Free Never occurred

Aquaculture Diseases - Fish

Disease

Status

Date of Last Occurrence / Notes

Epizootic hematopoietic necrosis Free Never occurred
Epizootic ulcerative syndrome Free 2004 (wild species)
Gyrodactylosis (Gyrodactylus salaries) Free Never occurred
Infectious hematopoietic necrosis Present Sporadic / limited distribution
Infectious salmon anemia Free 2006
Koi herpesvirus disease Present  
Red sea bream iridoviral disease Free Never occurred
Spring viremia of carp Identification of the presence of infection/infestation Confirmed infection (wild species), no clinical disease
Viral hemorrhagic septicaemia Present Sporadic (wild species) / limited distribution

Aquaculture Diseases - Molluscs

Disease

Status

Date of Last Occurrence / Notes

Abalone viral mortality Free Never occurred
Infection with Bonamia exitiosus Free Never occurred
Infection with Bonamia ostreae Free 2006
Infection with Marteilia refringens Free Never occurred
Infection with Mikrocytos roughleyi Free Never occurred
Infection with Perkinsus marinus Present Sporadic (wild species) / limited distribution
Infection with Perkinsus olseni  Identification of the presence of infection/infestation Confirmed infection, no clinical disease
Infection with Xenohaliotis californiensis Free 2006

Aquaculture Diseases - Crustaceans

Disease

Status

Date of Last Occurrence / Notes

Crayfish plague (Aphanomyces astaci) Free  
Infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis Free  
Infectious myonecrosis Free Never occurred
Spherical baculovirosis (Penaeus monodon-type baculovirus) Free Never occurred
Taura syndrome Absent During Reporting Period 2007 HI routine surveillance detected one non-clinical event
Tetrahedral baculovirosis (Baculovirus penaei) Free 2006
White spot disease Present Sporadic / limited distribution / one event detected June 2008 in Whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) shrimp farm located on Kauai, Hawaii (OIE Immediate Report) 
White tail disease Free Never occurred
Yellowhead disease Absent During Reporting Period No detections reported in 2008

Sporadic = occurring only occasionally
Limited distribution = limited geographic distribution
? = presence of the diseases suspected but not confirmed

 

 

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