Reportable Diseases in SC

• National Animal Health Reporting System (NAHRS)
• OIE Listed Diseases (formerly A and B lists)
• List and Description of Animal Diseases

The following are to be reported immediately to the State Veterinarian's office when diagnosed or suspected.

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.

(last reviewed September 2006)

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
Equine Encephalitis (EEE) Supplemental Information Form

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