Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, March 1, 2024
RELATES TO:
KRS
257.020,
257.030,
257.080
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
KRS
257.080 requires the Kentucky Department of
Agriculture to promulgate administrative regulations listing all reportable
diseases of livestock, poultry, and fish and set out the conditions under which
the diseases shall be reported. This administrative regulation establishes a
comprehensive list of reportable diseases and the conditions under which the
diseases shall be reported.
Section 1.
Duty to Notify.
(1) Every veterinarian,
veterinary practice, and personnel; veterinary diagnostic laboratory and
personnel; laboratory providing livestock, poultry, or fish diagnostic services
for Kentucky; owner of livestock, poultry, or fish; persons associated with any
livestock, poultry, or fish; sales or event establishment and personnel;
transportation provider; slaughter facility and personnel; or any other person
or entity having knowledge of the existence of any reportable disease, as
established in Section (2) of this administrative regulation, shall immediately
report the disease or condition to the State Veterinarian.
(2) All laboratories providing diagnostic
services for Kentucky livestock, poultry, or fish shall give notification
pursuant to Section 3 of this administrative regulation.
Section 2. Diseases to be reported.
(1) The following diseases and conditions
shall be immediately reported to the State Veterinarian:
(a) Anaplasmosis;
(b) Bluetongue;
(c) Borna disease;
(d) Botulism;
(e) Bovine ephemeral fever;
(f) Bovine Leukemia;
(g) Bovine Viral Disease (BVD);
(h) Brucellosis;
(i) Caprine Arthritis Encephalitis
(CAE);
(j) Capripoxvirus;
(k) Chronic Wasting Disease;
(l) Clostridium perfringens epsilon
toxin;
(m) Coccidiodes
immitis;
(n) Epizootic Hemorhagic
Disease;
(o) Epizootic
lymphangitis;
(p) Equine Herpes
(Rhinopneumonitis);
(q) Equine
Influenza;
(r) Equine Viral
Arteritis;
(s) Getah;
(t) Jembrana;
(u) Louping-ill;
(v) Mycoplasma gallisepticum;
(w) Mycoplasma synoviae;
(x) Paratuberculosis (Johne's
disease);
(y) Plague (Yersinia
pestis);
(z) Plant and chemical
toxicosis;
(aa) Porcine Epidemic
Diarrhea;
(bb)
Pseudorabies;
(cc) Q
Fever;
(dd) Scabies;
(ee) Scrapie;
(ff) Strangles (Streptococcus equi
equi);
(gg) Swine influenza
virus;
(hh) Tuberculosis;
(ii) Vesicular Stomatitis;
(jj) West Nile Virus;
(kk) The World Organization for Animal Health
(OIE) Listed Diseases; and
(ll)
United Stated Department of Agriculture National List of Reportable Animal
Diseases and Emerging Diseases Framework listed diseases, found at
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/program-
overview/ct_national_list_reportable_animal_diseases.
(2) Conditions of any etiology
that meet any of the following criteria shall be reported immediately:
(a) Abortion storms in livestock or equine of
unknown etiology;
(b) Encephalitis
or other central nervous system disease;
(c) Unusual number of acute deaths in
livestock, equine, poultry, or fish; or
(d) Highly infectious conditions of any
etiology, known or unknown.
Section 3.
(1) The notification shall be given to the
Office of the State Veterinarian, Kentucky Department of Agriculture, 109
Corporate Drive, Frankfort, Kentucky 40601; telephone 502-573-0282.
(2) The person reporting shall submit the:
(a) Name, address, and telephone number of
the owner of the equine, livestock, poultry, or fish;
(b) Livestock, poultry and fish species,
breed, age, sex, how many affected, and clinical signs;
(c) Premises address for the Livestock,
poultry and fish tested or affected;
(d) Name, address, and telephone number of
the veterinarian submitting the case; and
(e) Name, address, and telephone number of
the person reporting.
(3) A report submitted to the State
Veterinarian by a diagnostic laboratory of a condition suspected or diagnosed
by a test result or other laboratory procedure shall constitute notification on
behalf of the laboratory and the submitting veterinarian or owner.
Section 4. Incorporation by
Reference.
(1) The following material is
incorporated by reference:
(a) "The World
Organization for Animal Health (OIE) Listed Diseases", 2006. This list may also
be found at http://www.oie.int/eng/maladies/en_classification2010.htm?e1d7;
and
(b) "United Stated Department
of Agriculture National List of Reportable Animal Diseases and Emerging
Diseases Framework" 2019.
(2) This material may be inspected, copied,
or obtained, subject to applicable copyright law, at the Kentucky Department of
Agriculture, Division of Animal Health, 109 Corporate Drive, Frankfort,
Kentucky 40601, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
STATUTORY AUTHORITY:
KRS
257.080