REPORTABLE ANIMAL DISEASES IN MICHIGAN If you suspect or confirm any of these diseases, please call 800-292-3939 (daytime) or 517-373-0440 (emergencies only).
Pursuant to Act 466 of 1988, MCL 287.709, a person who discovers or suspects or has reason to believe that an animal is either affected by a reportable disease or contaminated with a toxic substance shall immediately report this to the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Reportable animal diseases are categorized as either emergency, regulated or monitored - depending on the Michigan Department of Agriculture’s regulatory response. Regulated Diseases: Emergency Diseases: Regulated diseases should be reported to MDARD Emergency diseases should be reported within 24 hours. Regulated diseases generate a to MDARD immediately upon suspicion. response ranging from education/outreach to When reporting, always speak with a quarantine and animal removal. For most regulatory veterinarian; do not leave a voicemail diseases, stopping the spread of disease is the goal message. Nearly all emergency diseases of regulatory response. are foreign animal diseases and will be investigated by a Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostician Veterinarian. Veterinarians Monitored Diseases: and animal owners should expect a Monitored diseases should be reported to MDARD quarantine and an on-farm investigation, within 30 days. Generally, the regulatory response when one of these diseases are suspected. to monitored diseases is recording and tracking the These are serious diseases that can cause status of the disease in our state. Some diseases significant harm to animals, animal are look a likes for emergency diseases, or diseases industries, and potentially public health. that still require action by MDARD such as regulated For many of these diseases, eradication is diseases. If an emergency or regulated disease is on the goal of regulatory response. your rule out list, notify us appropriately – do not wait for monthly reporting. AMPHIBIAN REGULATED Must be reported by the next business day.
Infection with (Batrachachytrium dendrobatidis) Toxic substance contamination Infection with ranavirus AQUACULTURE EMERGENCY REGULATED Must be reported immediately. Must be reported by the next business day.
Fish: Epizootic hematopoietic necrosis Crustacean: Acute hepatopancreatic necrosis Fish: Gyrodactylosis (Gyrodactylus salaris) Crustacean: Crayfish plague Fish: Infected with salmonid alphavirus Crustacean: Infectious hypodermal and hematopoietic necrosis Fish: Infectious salmon anemia Crustacean: Infectious myonecrosis Fish: Red sea bream iridoviral disease Crustacean: Necrotizing hepatopancreatitis Fish: Spring viremia of carp Crustacean: Taura syndrome
Updated January 2018 1 AQUACULTURE CONTINUED REGULATED Must be reported by the next business day. Crustacean: White spot disease Mollusk: Infection with abalone herpesvirus Crustacean: White tail disease Mollusk: Infection with Bonamia exitiosa Crustacean: Yellowhead disease Mollusk: Infection with Bonamia ostreae Fish: Ceratomyxosis Mollusk: Marteilia refringens Fish: Epizootic ulcerative syndrome Mollusk: Perkinsus marinus Fish: Infectious hematopoietic necrosis Mollusk: Perkinsus olseni Fish: Proliferative kidney disease Mollusk: Xenohliotis californiensis Fish: Viral hemorrhagic septicemia Toxic substance contamination Fish: Whirling disease (Myxobolus cerebralis) MONITORED Must be reported within 30 days. Fish: Koi herpesvirus disease Fish: Infectious pancreatic necrosis AVIAN EMERGENCY REGULATED Must be reported immediately. Must be reported by the next business day.
Avian influenza, highly pathogenic * Infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) Avian influenza, low pathogenic (H5 or H7)* Mycoplasma gallisepticum, M. meleagridis, M. synoviae Exotic Newcastle Disease (END)* Pullorum disease (Salmonella pullorum) REGULATED Tuberculosis (all Mycobacterium species)* Must be reported by the next business day. Turkey coronavirus Turkey rhinotracheitis Chlamydiosis (Chlamydia psittaci)* West Nile virus (WNV)* Duck viral enteritis (Duck Plague) Toxic substance contamination Duck virus hepatitis Equine encephalomyelitis [Eastern (EEE), Western (WEE)]* MONITORED Must be reported within 30 days. Fowl typhoid (Salmonella gallinarum) Infectious bursal disease (IBD) Avian infectious bronchitis BOVINE EMERGENCY Must be reported immediately.
Akabane (congenital arthrogryposis) Lumpy skin disease Babesiosis (Babesia bovis, B. bigemina)* Melioidosis (Burkholderia pseudomallei)* Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)* Rift Valley fever* Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) (Mycoplasma Rinderpest mycoides mycoides) Surra (Trypanosoma evansi) Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever* Screwworm* Foot and mouth disease (FMD) Trypanosomiasis (Trypanosoma brucei brucei, Heartwater (Ehrlichia ruminantium) T. congolense, T. vivax) Hemorrhagic septicemia (Pasteurella multocida) Vesicular stomatitis (VS)*
* indicates zoonotic disease 2 BOVINE CONTINUED REGULATED REGULATED Must be reported by the next business day. Must be reported by the next business day. Anaplasmosis (Anaplasma caudatum, A. centrale, Trichomoniasis (Trichomonas foetus) A. marginale)* Tuberculosis (all Mycobacterium species)* Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)* MONITORED Bluetongue Must be reported within 30 days. Brucellosis (all Brucella species)* Epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) Bovine leukemia virus, enzootic bovine leukosis (BLV) Listeriosis (Listeria monocytogenes)* Bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) Pseudorabies (Aujeszky’s Disease, PRV) Echinococcosis/hydatidosis (Echinococcus spp.)* Q fever (Coxiella burnetii)* Genital campylobacteriosis (Vibriosis) (Campylobacter fetus venerealis) Rabies* Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis/Infectious pustular Theileriasis (Theileria annulata, T. parva) vulvovaginitis (IBR/IPV) Toxic substance contamination Johne’s Disease, Paratuberculosis (Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis) Malignant catarrhal fever CANINE EMERGENCY REGULATED Must be reported immediately. Must be reported by the next business day. Glanders (Burkholderia mallei)* Equine encephalomyelitis [Eastern (EEE)]* Rift Valley fever* Leishmaniasis* Screwworm* Leptospirosis* Surra (Trypanosoma evansi) Plague (Yersinia pestis)* Pseudorabies (Aujeszky’s Disease, PRV) REGULATED Q fever (Coxiella burnetii)* Must be reported by the next business day. Rabies* Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)* Tuberculosis (all Mycobacterium species)* Brucellosis (all Brucella species)* Tularemia (Francisella tularensis)* Canine influenza (all variants) Toxic substance contamination Echinococcosis/hydatidosis (Echinococcus spp.)* West Nile virus (WNV)* CAPRINE/OVINE EMERGENCY Must be reported immediately.
Akabane (congenital arthrogryposis) Melioidosis (Burkholderia pseudomallei)* Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (CCPP) (Mycoplasma Nairobi sheep disease* capricolum capripneumoniae, Mycoplasma biotype F-38, Peste des petits ruminants M. mycoides capri) Rift Valley fever* Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever* Rinderpest Foot and mouth disease (FMD) Theileriasis (Theileria annulata, T. parva) Goat and sheep pox Screwworm* Heartwater (Ehrlichia ruminantium) Surra (Trypanosoma evansi) Mange (Sarcoptes scabiei var ovis)* Vesicular stomatitis (VS)*
* indicates zoonotic disease 3 CAPRINE/OVINE CONTINUED REGULATED REGULATED Must be reported by the next business day. Must be reported by the next business day. Anaplasmosis (Anaplasma caudatum, A. centrale, Rabies* A. marginale)* Scrapie Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)* Tuberculosis (all Mycobacterium species)* Bluetongue Tularemia (Francisella tularensis)* Brucellosis (all Brucella species)* Toxic substance contamination Echinococcosis/hydatidosis (Echinococcus spp.)* MONITORED Enzootic abortion of ewes (ovine chlamydiosis, Must be reported within 30 days. Chlamydia psittaci)* Caprine arthritis/encephalitis (CAE) Listeriosis (Listeria monocytogenes)* Contagious agalactia (Mycoplasma agalactiae) Ovine epididymitis (Brucella ovis infection)* Johne’s Disease, Paratuberculosis (Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis) Pseudorabies (Aujeszky’s Disease, PRV) Maedi-visna/Ovine progressive pneumonia Q fever (Coxiella burnetii)* Salmonellosis (Salmonella abortus ovis)* CERVID EMERGENCY REGULATED Must be reported immediately. Must be reported by the next business day. Akabane (congenital arthrogryposis) Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever* Echinococcosis/hydatidosis (Echinococcus spp.)* Foot and mouth disease (FMD) Epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) Heartwater (Ehrlichia ruminantium) Equine encephalomyelitis [Eastern (EEE), Western (WEE), Melioidosis (Burkholderia pseudomallei)* Venezuelan (VEE)]* Rift Valley fever* Pseudorabies (Aujeszky’s Disease, PRV) Rinderpest Q fever (Coxiella burnetii)* Screwworm* Rabies* Surra (Trypanosoma evansi) Tuberculosis (all Mycobacterium species)* Vesicular stomatitis (VS)* Toxic substance contamination West Nile virus (WNV)* REGULATED Must be reported by the next business day. MONITORED Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)* Must be reported within 30 days. Bluetongue Johne’s Disease, Paratuberculosis (Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis) Brucellosis (all Brucella species)* Malignant catarrhal fever EQUINE EMERGENCY Must be reported immediately. African horse sickness Japanese encephalitis* Contagious equine metritis (Taylorella equigenitalis) Melioidosis (Burkholderia pseudomallei)* Dourine (Trypanosoma equiperadum) Screwworm* Equine piroplasmosis (Babesia caballi, Theileria equi)* Surra (Trypanosoma evansi) Glanders (Burkholderia mallei)* Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis Hendra* Vesicular stomatitis (VS)*
* indicates zoonotic disease 4 EQUINE CONTINUED REGULATED REGULATED Must be reported by the next business day. Must be reported by the next business day. Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)* Trichinellosis (Trichinela spiralis)* Echinococcosis/hydatidosis (Echinococcus spp.)* Tularemia (Francisella tularensis)* Equine encephalomyelitis [Eastern (EEE), Western (WEE)]* Pigeon Fever (Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis, ulcerative lymphangitis) Equine herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy (EHV-1 EHM) West Nile virus (WNV)* Equine infectious anemia (EIA) MONITORED Equine viral arteritis (EVA) Must be reported within 30 days. Rabies* Brucellosis (all Brucella species)* Strangles (Streptococcus equi equi) Equine influenza (virus Type A) Toxic substance contamination Equine rhinopneumonitis (EHV-1 non-EHM) FELINE EMERGENCY REGULATED Must be reported immediately. Must be reported by the next business day. Glanders (Burkholderia mallei)* Plague (Yersinia pestis)* Rift Valley fever* Pseudorabies (Aujeszky’s Disease, PRV) Screwworm* Q fever (Coxiella burnetii)* REGULATED Rabies* Must be reported by the next business day. Toxic substance contamination Tuberculosis (all Mycobacterium species)* Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)* Tularemia (Francisella tularensis)* Echinococcosis/hydatidosis (Echinococcus spp.)* West Nile virus (WNV)* FERRETS EMERGENCY Must be reported immediately. Screwworm* REGULATED Must be reported by the next business day. Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)* Q fever (Coxiella burnetii)* Botulism (Clostridium botulinum)* Rabies* Echinococcosis/hydatidosis (Echinococcus spp.)* Toxic substance contamination Plague (Yersinia pestis)* Tularemia (Francisella tularensis)* Pseudorabies (Aujeszky’s Disease, PRV) West Nile virus (WNV)* LAGOMORPHS EMERGENCY REGULATED Must be reported immediately. Must be reported by the next business day. Rabbit hemorrhagic disease Myxomatosis Screwworm* Plague (Yersinia pestis)* Q fever (Coxiella burnetii)* Toxic substance contamination Tularemia (Francisella tularensis)*
* indicates zoonotic disease 5 NEW/OLD WORLD CAMELID EMERGENCY REGULATED Must be reported immediately. Must be reported by the next business day. Camelpox Rabies* Rift Valley fever* Toxic substance contamination Screwworm* Tuberculosis (all Mycobacterium species)* Surra (Trypanosoma evansi) REGULATED MONITORED Must be reported within 30 days. Must be reported within 24 hours. Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)* Bluetongue Brucellosis (all Brucella species)* Johne’s Disease, Paratuberculosis (Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis) PORCINE EMERGENCY REGULATED Must be reported immediately. Must be reported by the next business day. African Swine Fever Echinococcosis/hydatidosis (Echinococcus spp.)* Classical swine fever (Hog cholera) Influenza (for swine shown @ fairs/exhibitions with fever > 105°F, Foot and mouth disease (FMD) clinical or asymptomatic)* Japanese encephalitis* Pseudorabies (Aujeszky’s Disease, PRV) Melioidosis (Burkholderia pseudomallei)* Rabies* Nipah virus encephalitis* Swine erysipelas Rinderpest Toxic substance contamination Screwworm* Trichinellosis (Trichinela spiralis)* Swine vesicular disease Tuberculosis (all Mycobacterium species)* Vesicular exanthema Tularemia (Francisella tularensis)* Vesicular stomatitis (VS)* MONITORED REGULATED Must be reported within 30 days. Must be reported by the next business day. Swine enteric coronavirus [Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDV) and Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)* Porcine Delta Coronavirus (PDCoV)] Brucellosis (all Brucella species)* Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) Cysticercosis (Cysticercus cellulosae metacestode stage of Transmissible gastroenteritis (TGE) Taenia solium)* PRIMATES EMERGENCY REGULATED Must be reported immediately. Must be reported by the next business day. Monkeypox Equine encephalomyelitis [Eastern (EEE), Western (WEE), Rift Valley fever* Venezuelan (VEE)]* Screwworm* Melioidosis (Burkholderia pseudomallei)* REGULATED Plague (Yersinia pestis)* Rabies* Must be reported by the next business day. Toxic substance contamination Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)* Tuberculosis (all Mycobacterium species)* Brucellosis (all Brucella species)* West Nile virus (WNV)*
* indicates zoonotic disease 6 RODENTS EMERGENCY REGULATED Must be reported immediately. Must be reported by the next business day. Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever* Melioidosis (Burkholderia pseudomallei)* Rift Valley fever* Monkeypox REGULATED Pseudorabies (Aujeszky’s Disease, PRV) Must be reported by the next business day. Plague (Yersinia pestis)* Q fever (Coxiella burnetii)* Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)* Rabies* Brucellosis (all Brucella species)* Toxic substance contamination Echinococcosis/hydatidosis (Echinococcus spp.)* Tuberculosis (all Mycobacterium species)* Equine encephalomyelitis [Eastern (EEE), Western (WEE)]* Tularemia (Francisella tularensis)* Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus* SPECIES NOT LISTED EMERGENCY REGULATED Must be reported immediately. Must be reported by the next business day. Foot and mouth disease (FMD) Equine encephalomyelitis [Eastern (EEE), Western (WEE)]* Screwworm* Leishmaniasis* REGULATED Plague (Yersinia pestis)* Must be reported by the next business day. Rabies* Toxic substance contamination Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)* Tuberculosis (all Mycobacterium species)* Brucellosis (all Brucella species)* West Nile virus (WNV)* HOW TO REPORT A DISEASE If you suspect or confirm any of these diseases, please contact MDARD by phone or email.
Phone: 800-292-3939 (daytime) or 517-373-0440 (emergencies only)
Email: Visit the “Reportable Disease” page at www.michigan.gov/dvmresources and download the Reporting a Reportable Animal Disease form, once complete, email it to [email protected].
* indicates zoonotic disease 7 www.michigan.gov/dvmresources Animal Industry Division Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Constitution Hall, 525 West Allegan, Lansing, Michigan 48913 800-292-3939 (daytime) or 517-373-0440 (emergencies only)
Dr. Stephen Hussey Dr. Theresa Drysdale Swine, Aquaculture and Animal Disease Traceability Invasive Species and Livestock Dealers [email protected] [email protected] 517-284-5685 Dr. James Averill 517-284-5791 State Veterinarian and Dr. Michele Schalow Division Director Dogs, Cats, Exotics [email protected] Colleen Phillipich and Equine 517-284-5667 Import/Export Coordinator [email protected] [email protected] 517-284-5688 517-284-5674 Dr. Nancy Frank Dr. Nancy Barr Assistant State Veterinarian Emergency Preparedness Companion Animal Dr. Michael VanderKlok and Poultry and Equine Bovine Tuberculosis [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 517-284-5669 517-284-5676 517-284-5690
Pollyanne McKillop Animal Shelters and Dr. Rick Smith Dr. Cheryl Collins Large-scale Dog Breeders Assistant State Veterinarian Cervids and Small Ruminant [email protected] TB & Food Animals [email protected] 517-284-5682 [email protected] 517-284-5686 517-284-5689 Al Rodriquez Dr. Jarold Goodrich Compliance Unit Manager Fairs and Exhibitions [email protected] [email protected] 517-284-5687 517-284-5677
For information on outreach materials created by the Animal Industry Division, contact Megan Sprague at [email protected] or 517-284-5661.