New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 1 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS
Chapter II - Animal Industry
Subchapter A - Diseases of Domestic Animals; Garbage Feeding
Part 60 - Intrastate Movement Of Deer
Section 60.5 - Procedures for infected herds
Universal Citation: 1 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs ยง 60.5
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(a) A herd shall be classified as tuberculosis infected if Mycobacterium bovis is found in the tissue of any deer. The entire herd shall be quarantined under the conditions outlined in section 60.7 of this Part until:
(1) the herd is depopulated
and the premises are cleaned and disinfected in a manner acceptable to the
commissioner; or
(2) each deer in
the herd is subjected to a BTB test conducted by an accredited veterinarian on
two separate occasions at a 90-day interval. Any reactor to either BTB test
shall be slaughtered within a maximum of 10 days. After the initial BTB tests,
the remaining herd shall be subject to a series of single cervical tuberculosis
tests, U.S.D.A. approved deer tuberculosis tests or BTB tests conducted at not
less than eight month intervals until all deer react negatively to three
successive tests.
(b) The procedure for infected herds is illustrated in the following chart:
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