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Reportable Diseases in SC

 

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The following are to be reported immediately to the State Veterinarian’s office when diagnosed or suspected. (last updated October 2001; last reviewed September 2006)

  • African Horse Sickness
  • African Swine Fever
  • All foreign and Exotic Diseases and Parasites of Animals and Birds
  • Anthrax
  • Avian Infectious Laryngotracheitis
  • Babesiosis (Babesia bovis, B. bigemina)
  • Brucellosis
  • Cattle Tick Fever
  • Contagious Equine Metritis
  • Dourine (Trypamosoma equiperdum)
  • Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis (EEE)
  • Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA)
  • Equine Viral Arteritis
  • Erysipelas
  • Foot and Mouth Disease
  • Glanders - Burkholderia mallei (formerly Pseudomonas mallei)
  • Heartwater (Cowdria ruminentium)
  • Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (Fowl Plague)
  • Hog Cholera
  • Newcastle Disease (Exotic)
  • OIE Listed Diseases (formerly A&B lists)
  • Paratuberculosis – Johne’s Disease
  • Pseudorabies
  • Pullorum – Fowl Typhoid
  • Q Fever (Coxiella burnetii)
  • Rabies – coordinated with DHEC
  • Rinderpest
  • Scrapie 
  • Screwworm (Cochliomyia hominworox)
  • Tuberculosis
  • Venezuelan Equine Encephalomyelitis (VEE)
  • Vesicular Exanthema
  • Vesicular Stomatitis
  • West Nile (WNV) Encephalitis
  • Western Equine Encephalomyelitis(WEE)

The State Veterinarian may declare other diseases as reportable.

Reportable Disease in SC By Clinical Symptoms:

  • Sore Mouth-Muzzle - especially if accompanied by foot, udder, vulva or skin lesions (Blisters-Vesicles)
    Ex: Foot & Mouth, Vesicular Stomatitis, etc.
  • Encephalitis (CNS) Conditions in All Animals and Birds.
    Ex: Eastern, Western and Venezuelan Equine Encephalomylitis, West Nile Encephalitis
  • Pseudorabies, Bovine Spongioform Encephalopaty (BSE)
  • Caprine Arthritis Encephalitis
  • High Death Loss – especially over a short period and in older animals past several weeks old.
    Ex: Hog Cholera, Erysipelas, Anthrax, Acute Septicemias
  • Reproductive Problems
    Ex: Brucellosis, Pseudorabies, Contagious Equine Metritis (CEM)
  • Any Highly Unusual Condition – Disease or parasites differing from conditions one is familiar with.
    Ex: All foreign and exotic diseases and parasites, unusual symptomatolgy of any kind.

 

Statutory Authority: Code of Laws of S. C. 1976, 47-4-50

 

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