Virginia Regulatory Town Hall

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Amendments to animal disease reporting requirements
Stage: Fast-Track
 
2VAC5-30-10

2VAC5-30-10. Normal reporting. (Repealed.)

Any person practicing veterinary medicine, any person or firm operating a laboratory for the diagnosis of livestock or poultry diseases, and any other reporting entity designated by the State Veterinarian within the Commonwealth of Virginia shall, between the first and tenth day of each month for the month preceding, report to the State Veterinarian the existence of those contagious or infectious diseases among livestock and poultry known to him listed on Schedule B of form VDACS-03016 (8/87), "Reportable Diseases of Virginia Livestock and Poultry." Reports may be filed electronically in a manner specified by VDACS, including, but not limited to, electronic mail or by completing any forms provided online by VDACS.

2VAC5-30-20

2VAC5-30-20. Special reporting Reporting requirements.

Any person practicing veterinary medicine, any person or firm operating a laboratory for the diagnosis of livestock or poultry diseases, and any other reporting entity designated by the State Veterinarian within the Commonwealth of Virginia shall report within 24 hours by telephone to the State Veterinarian: (i) or a veterinarian in the employ of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) the existence of anthrax, glanders, or any vesicular or exotic disease an emerging disease of livestock or poultry or any other disease of livestock or poultry known to him listed on Schedule A of form VDACS-03016 (8/87), "Reportable Diseases of Virginia Livestock and Poultry"; and (ii) the existence of any disease of poultry listed on Schedule A of form VDACS-03016 (8/87), "Reportable Diseases of Virginia Livestock and Poultry." If for any reason the State Veterinarian is not immediately available by telephone, such report shall be made directly to any veterinarian in the employ of the Commonwealth of Virginia in 2VAC5-30-30. Reports may be filed electronically in a manner specified by VDACS, including, but not limited to, electronic mail or by completing any forms provided online by VDACS.

2VAC5-30-30

 2VAC5-30-30. Reportable disease list.

A. The Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services declares suspected or confirmed cases of the following multiple-species diseases to be reportable by the persons enumerated in 2VAC5-30-20. Conditions identified by an asterisk (*) are foreign animal diseases.

*Akabane

Anthrax

Aujeszky's disease (Pseudorabies, PRV)

Bluetongue (nonendemic)

Brucellosis (Brucella abortus)

Brucellosis (Brucella melitensis)

Brucellosis (Brucella suis)

*Camelpox

Chronic wasting disease

*Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever

Epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD)

Equine encephalomyelitis (Eastern)

Equine encephalomyelitis (Venezuelan)

*Foot-and-mouth disease

*Glanders (Burkholderia mallei)

*Heartwater

*Japanese encephalitis

*Leishmaniosis

*Melioidosis (Burkholderia pseudomallei)

*New and Old World screwworms

Rabies

*Rift Valley fever

*Rinderpest

*Surra (Trypanosoma evansi)

Tuberculosis (M. bovis, M. tuberculosis)

Vesicular stomatitis

West Nile fever/virus

B. The Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services declares suspected or confirmed cases of the following cattle diseases to be reportable by the persons enumerated in 2VAC5-30-20. Conditions identified by an asterisk (*) are foreign animal diseases.

*Bovine babesiosis

*Bovine spongiform encephalopathy

*Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia

*Hemorrhagic septicemia

*Lumpy skin disease

*Theileriosis (East Coast fever)

Trichomoniasis

*Trypanosomosis (tsetse transmitted)

C. The Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services declares suspected or confirmed cases of the following swine diseases to be reportable by the persons enumerated in 2VAC5-30-20. Conditions identified by an asterisk (*) are foreign animal diseases.

*African swine fever

*Classical swine fever

*Nipah virus

Swine vesicular disease

Vesicular exanthema

Porcine enteric coronavirus disease

D. The Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services declares suspected or confirmed cases of the following sheep and goat diseases to be reportable by the persons enumerated in 2VAC5-30-20. Conditions identified by an asterisk (*) are foreign animal diseases.

*Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia

*Nairobi sheep disease

*Peste des petites ruminants

Scabies

Scrapie

*Sheep pox and goat pox

E. The Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services declares suspected or confirmed cases of the following equine diseases to be reportable by the persons enumerated in 2VAC5-30-20. Conditions identified by an asterisk (*) are foreign animal diseases.

*African horse sickness

*Contagious equine metritis

*Dourine

Equine encephalomyelitis (Western)

Equine infectious anemia (EIA)

Equine piroplasmosis

Equine herpesvirus-1 myeloencephalopathy (EHV1-EHM)

*Hendra

F. The Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services declares suspected or confirmed cases of the following avian diseases to be reportable by the persons enumerated in 2VAC5-30-20. Conditions identified by an asterisk (*) are foreign animal diseases.

*Duck viral hepatitis

*Exotic (virulent) Newcastle disease as defined in Chapter 10.9, Terrestrial Animal Health Code, effective July 20, 2015

Fowl typhoid (Salmonella gallinarum)

*Highly pathogenic Avian Influenza as defined in Chapter 10.4, Terrestrial Animal Health Code, effective July 20, 2015

Low pathogenic Avian Influenza in poultry as defined in Chapter 10.4, Terrestrial Animal Health Code, effective July 20, 2015

Pullorum disease (Salmonella pullorum)

Turkey rhinotracheitis

2VAC5-30-9998

FORMS (2VAC5-30)

Reportable Diseases of Virginia Livestock and Poultry (Foreign and Domestic), Form VDACS-03016, eff. 8/87.

2VAC5-30-9999

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE (2VAC5-30)

Terrestrial Animal Health Code, 24th edition, effective July 20, 2015, World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), http://www.oie.int/en/