SCHEDULED ANIMAL DISEASES
Notifiable diseases are animal diseases that when suspected by owners, vets or laboratories must be reported within a defined time frame.
Signs that could indicate a notifiable or emergency animal disease
- High rate of death or sickness in animals
- Sudden death
- Drop in production of milk yield or egg production
- Rapid spread of disease through a flock or herd
- Blisters, erosions or ulcers in their mouth, on or around the muzzle, feet, udder or teats
- Excessive nasal discharge or salivation
- Unusual nervous signs such as tremors, uncharacteristic aggression or paralysis
- Any unusual disease symptoms
- Disease affects multiple species
- REPORTABLE SCHEDULED DISEASES Under section 2 (o) and 38 of THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS AND CONTAGIOUS DISEASES IN ANIMALS ACT, 2009
| A. MULTIPLE SPECIES DISEASES | |||
| 1. | Anthrax | 2. | Aujeszky’s disease |
| 3. | Blue tongue | 4. | Brucellosis |
| 5. | Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic fever | 6. | Echinococcosis hydatidosis |
| 7. | Foot and mouth disease | 8. | Heart water |
| 9. | Japanese encephalitis | 10. | Leptospirosis |
| 11. | New world screw worm (Cochliomyia hominiorax) | 12. | Old world screw worm (Chrysomya bezziana) |
| 13. | Paratuberculosis | 14. | Q fever |
| 15. | Rabies | 16. | Rift valley fever |
| 17. | Rinderpest | 18. | Trichinellosis |
| 19. | Tularemia | 20. | Vesicular stomatitis |
| 21. | West Nile fever | ||
| B. CATTLE DISEASES | |||
| 1. | Bovine anaplasmosis | 2. | Bovine babesiosis |
| 3. | Bovine genital campylobacteriosis | 4. | Bovine spongiform encephalopathy |
| 5. | Bovine tuberculosis | 6. | Bovine viral diarrhoea |
| 7. | Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia | 8. | Enzootic bovine leucosis |
| 9. | Haemorrhagic septicaemia | 10. | Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis/ infectious pustular vulvovaginitis |
| 11. | Lumpy skin disease | 12. | Malignant catarrhal fever |
| 13. | Theileriosis | 14. | Trichomonosis |
| 15. | Trypanosomosis | ||
| C. SHEEP AND GOAT DISEASES | |||
| 1. | Caprine arthritis/ encephalitis | 2. | Contagious agalactia |
| 3. | Contagious caprine plueopneumnia | 4. | Enzootic abortion of ewes (Ovine chlamydiosis) |
| 5. | Maedi-Visna | 6. | Nairobi sheep disease |
| 7. | Ovine epididymitis (Brucella ovis) | 8. | Peste des petis ruminants (PPR) |
| 9. | Salmonellosis (S. abortusovis) | 10. | Scrapie |
| 11. | Sheep pox and goat pox | ||
| D. EQUINE DISEASES | |||
| 1. | African Horse Sickness | 2. | Contagious equine metritis |
| 3. | Dourine | 4. | Equine encephalomyelitis (Eastern) |
| 5. | Equine encephalomyelitis (Western) | 6. | Equine infectious anaemia |
| 7. | Equine influenza | 8. | Equine piroplasmosis |
| 9. | Equine rhinopneumonitis | 10. | Equine viral arteritis |
| 11. | Glanders | 12. | Surra (Trypanosoma evansi) |
| 13. | Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis | ||
| E. SWINE DISEASES | |||
| 1. | African swine fever | 2. | Classical swine fever |
| 3. | Nipah viral encephalitis | 4. | Porcine cysticercosis |
| 5. | Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) | 6. | Swine vesicular disease |
| 7. | Transmissible gastroenteritis | ||
| F. AVIAN DISEASES | |||
| 1. | Avian chlamydiosis | 2. | Avian infectious bronchitis |
| 3. | Avian infectious laryngotracheitis | 4. | Avain mycoplasmosis (M gallisepticum) |
| 5. | Avian mycoplasmosis (M synoviae) | 6. | Duck virus hepatitis |
| 7. | Fowl cholera | 8. | Fowl typhoid |
| 9. | Highly pathogenic avian influenza and low pathogenic avian influenza in poultry | 10. | Infectious bursal disease (Gumboro disease) |
| 11. | Marek’s disease | 12. | Newcastle disease |
| 13. | Pullorum disease | 14. | Turkey rhinotracheitis |
| G. OTHER DISEASES | |||
| 1. | Camel Pox | 2. | Leishmaniosis |
THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS AND CONTAGIOUS DISEASES IN ANIMALS ACT, 2009
THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS AND CONTAGIOUS DISEASES IN ANIMALS ACT, 2009
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