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Chapter 9 - Emergency Situations
9.4 Reportable and Immediately Notifiable Diseases
Under the Health of Animals Act and Regulations, diseases are listed as reportable or immediately and annually notifiable.
Reportable diseases are outlined in the Health of Animals Act and Regulations and are usually of significant importance to human or animal health or to the Canadian economy. Animal owners, veterinarians and laboratories are required to immediately report the presence of an animal that is contaminated or suspected of being contaminated with one of these diseases to a CFIA district veterinarian. Control or eradication measures will be applied immediately.
Immediately notifiable diseases are mainly diseases exotic to Canada for which there are no control or eradication programs. However, this category does include some rare indigenous diseases. Any laboratory that diagnoses or suspects one of these diseases must immediately notify the CFIA, and provide detailed information on the source/origin of the affected animal(s).
The CFIA can undertake control measures for such diseases when notified of their presence in Canada. A herd or flock of origin must be certified as being free from these diseases in order to meet import requirements of trading partners.
Only laboratories are required to contact the CFIA regarding the suspicion or diagnosis of one of these diseases. Information must be forwarded by e-mail to the Animal Disease Surveillance Unit.
E-mail: notification@inspection.gc.ca
Fax: 1-613-228-6675 (att: notification)
| Item | Disease |
|---|---|
| 1. | African horse sickness |
| 2. | African swine fever |
| 3. | anaplasmosis |
| 4. | anthrax |
| 5. | bluetongue (excluding serotypes 2,10,11,13 and 17) |
| 6. | bovine spongiform encephalopathy |
| 7. | bovine tuberculosis (M. bovis) |
| 8. | brucellosis |
| 9. | chronic wasting disease of cervids |
| 10. | contagious bovine pleuropneumonia |
| 11. | contagious equine metritis |
| 12. | cysticercosis |
| 12.1 | [Repealed, SOR/2003-163, s. 1] |
| 12.2 | [Repealed, SOR/2003-163, s. 1] |
| 13. | equine infectious anaemia |
| 14. | equine piroplasmosis (B. equi and B. caballi) |
| 15. | foot and mouth disease (FMD) |
| 16. | fowl typhoid (Salmonella gallinarum) |
| 16.1 | [Repealed, SOR/2003-163, s. 2] |
| 17. | highly pathogenic avian influenza |
| 18. | hog cholera (classical swine fever) |
| 19. | lumpy skin disease |
| 20. | Newcastle disease |
| 21. | peste des petits ruminants |
| 22. | pseudorabies (Aujeszky's disease) |
| 23. | pullorum disease (S. pullorum) |
| 24. | rabies |
| 25. | Rift Valley fever |
| 26. | rinderpest |
| 27. | scrapie |
| 28. | sheep and goat pox |
| 29. | swine vesicular disease |
| 30. | trichinellosis |
| 31. | Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis |
| 32. | vesicular stomatitis |
For up-to-date information on these diseases please consult: Reportable Disease Regulations - Schedule (article 2)
| Item | Disease |
|---|---|
| 1. | aino virus infection |
| 2. | akabane disease |
| 3. | avian chlamydiosis (C. pscittaci) |
| 4. | avian encephalomyelitis |
| 5. | avian infectious laryngotracheitis |
| 6. | besnoitiosis |
| 6.1 | bluetongue (serotypes 2, 10, 11, 13 and 17) |
| 7. | Borna disease |
| 8. | bovine babesiosis (B. bovis) |
| 9. | bovine ephemeral fever |
| 10. | bovine petechial fever |
| 11. | contagious agalactia |
| 12. | contagious caprine pleuropneumonia |
| 13. | dourine |
| 14. | duck hepatitis |
| 15. | egg drop syndrome (adenovirus) |
| 16. | enterovirus encephalomyelitis (Teschen disease) |
| 17. | epizootic haemorrhagic disease |
| 18. | epizootic lymphangitis |
| 19. | equine encephalomyelitis, western and eastern |
| 20. | fluvalinate-resistant Varroa mite |
| 21. | fowl cholera |
| 22. | glanders |
| 23. | goose parvovirus infection (Derzsy's disease) |
| 24. | heartwater (cowdriosis) |
| 25. | hendra virus |
| 26. | herpes virus of cervidae |
| 27. | Ibaraki disease |
| 28. | Japanese encephalitis |
| 29. | louping ill |
| 30. | Nairobi sheep disease |
| 31. | Nipah virus |
| 32. | screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax and Chrysomyia bezziana) |
| 33. | small hive beetle (Aethina tumida) |
| 34. | theileriasis |
| 35. | tick-borne fever (Cytoecetes phagocytophilia) |
| 36. | tissue worm (Elaphostrongylus cervi) |
| 37. | trypanosomiasis (exotic to Canada) |
| 38. | turkey viral rhinotracheitis or swollen head disease in chickens |
| 39. | viral haemorrhagic disease of rabbits |
| 40. | Wesselbron's disease |
| 41. | West Nile fever |
For up-to-date information on these diseases please consult: Health of Animals Regulations - Schedule VII
