Virginia Reportable Diseases

*Consult the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to confirm information listed here, or for updates made since these guidelines were posted.

http://www.vdacs.virginia.gov/animals/pdf/033006diseaselist.pdf

Rapidly Reportable Diseases-

Reportable within 24 hours of Suspicion of Disease

Any Species
-Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)
-Botulism (except in equines)
-Brucellosis – all types
-Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever
-Foot and Mouth Disease
-Heartwater (Cowdria ruminantium)
-Japanese Encephalitis
-Meliodosis (Burkholderia pseudomallei)
-Plague (Yersinia pestis)
-Pseudorabies
-New and Old World Screwworm
-Q Fever (Coxiella burnetti)
-Rabies
-Rift Valley Fever
-Rinderpest
-Tuberculosis
-Tularemia (Francisella tularensis)
-Vesicular disease of any type (including Vesicular
Stomatitis)
-West Nile Virus

Unknown/Unusual Disease Occurrences
-Acute increase in abortions
-Acute increase in mortality
-Outbreaks of non-neonatal diarrhea
-Unusual occurrence of disease

Equine
-African Horse Sickness
-Contagious equine metritis (Taylorella equigenitalis)
-Dourine (Trypanosoma equiperdum)
-Equine infectious anemia
-Equine leucoencephalomalacia
-Equine Piroplasmosis
-Equine Viral Neurologic Diseases (including EHV, WNV,
and Equine Encephalidities such as EEE, WEE, VEE)
-Glanders (Burkholderia mallei)
-Surra (Trypanosoma evansi)

Diseases Reportable by the 5th of the Following Month

Multiple Species
-Bluetongue
-Echinococcosis/Hydatidosis
-Giardiasis
-Leptospirosis
-Neosporosis
-Paratuberculosis (Johne's Disease)
-Salmonellosis (any other than avian pullorum and SE)

Equine
-Botulism
-Equine influenza
-Equine rhinopneumonitis (EHV-1 and EHV-4)
-Equine viral arteritis (EVA)
-Strangles (Streptococcus equi)

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