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What diseases of cattle are reportable?

Last Updated: April 23, 2010

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According to the USDA’s National Animal Health Reporting System (www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/nahss/disease_status.htm#cattle) the diseases of cattle listed below are reportable to state and/or federal animal health authorities. Individual states may require additional diseases to be reported and additional diseases may be added to this list at any time.

Foot And Mouth Disease (FMD)
Vesicular Stomatitis (VS)
Rinderpest
Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (Mycoplasma mycoides mycoides)
Lumpy skin disease
Rift Valley fever
Bluetongue
Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)
Aujesky's Disease (Pseudorabies)
Echinococcosis / hydatidosis
Heartwater (Cowdria ruminantium)
Leptospirosis
Q Fever (Coxiella burnetti)
Rabies
Paratuberculosis (Johne's Disease - (Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis)
New World screwworm (Chrysomyia hominivorax)
Old World screwworm (Chrysomyia bezziana)
Anaplasmosis (Anaplasma marginale, A. centrale)
Babesiosis (Babesia bovis, B. bigemina)
Bovine Genital Campylobacteriosis (Campylobacter fetus venerealis)
Bovine Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis)
Enzootic bovine leukosis (BLV)
Hemorrhagic septicemia (Pasteurella multocida, serotypes B/Asian or E/African)
Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis/infectious pustular vulvovaginitis (IBR/IPV)
Theileriasis (Theileria annulata, T. parva)
Trichomoniasis (Tritrichomonas [Trichomonas] foetus)
Trypanosomiasis (tse-tse transmitted)
Malignant catarrhal fever (specify wildebeest or sheep form)
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever
Bovine brucellosis (B. abortus)
Bovine viral diarrhea (BVD)
Brucellosis (B. melitensis)
Brucellosis (B. suis)

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