Ontario provincially notifiable hazards, Immediately notifiable hazards

Ontario provincially notifiable hazards

Reporting and compensation regulations under the Animal Health Act (http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/statutes/english/elaws_statutes_09a31_e.htm) help Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) detect and respond to animal health events in a timely manner.  The reporting regulation requires that animal health laboratories and veterinarians report certain animal health hazards to OMAFRA immediately and annually. 

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Immediately notifiable hazards

Adenovirus

African horse sickness

African swine fever

Aino virus infection

Akabane disease

Anaplasmosis (Anaplasma marginale, A. centrale, A. ovis)

Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)

Avian chlamydiosis (Chlamydophila psittaci)

Avian encephalomyelitis

Avian infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT)

Avian mycoplasmosis

Avian tuberculosis

Besnoitiosis

Blackleg (Clostridium species)

Blastomycosis

Bluetongue

Borna disease

Botulism

Bovine babesiosis (Babesia protozoa)

Bovine cysticercosis

Bovine ephemeral fever

Bovine genital campylobacteriosis

Bovine malignant catarrhal fever

Bovine petechial fever (Ehrlichia ondiri)

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)

Bovine tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis)

Bovine viral diarrhea (BVD or mucosal disease)

Brucellosis Brucella abortus, B. suis, B. melitensis, B. canis      

Caprine arthritis-encephalitis

Caseous lymphadentitis

Chronic wasting disease of cervids (CWD)

Classical swine fever (hog cholera)

Clostridial infections (other than Blackleg)

Coccidiosis

Contagious agalactia (Mycoplasma agalactiae)

Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (Mycoplasma mycoides)

Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (CCPP) (Mycoplasma capricolum)

Contagious equine metritis (CEM) (Taylorella equigenitalis)

Coxiellosis (Q-Fever) (Coxiella burnetii)

Cryptococcosis

Cryptosporidiosis

Dourine

Duck hepatitis

Duck virus enteritis

Egg drop syndrome (Fowl adenovirus)

Enterovirus encephalomyelitis (Teschen disease)

Enzootic abortion of ewes (Chlamydophila abortus)

Enzootic bovine leukosis (EBL)

Epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD)

Epizootic lymphangitis

Equid herpesvirus (non-neurologic)

Equid herpesvirus 1 (neurologic)

Equine encephalomyelitis, western, eastern, and Venezuelan

Equine infectious anemia

Equine piroplasmosis Babesia equi, B. caballi

Equine viral arteritis

Foot and mouth disease (FMD)

Fowl cholera (Pasteurella multocida)

Fowl pox

Fowl typhoid Salmonella Gallinarum

Giardiasis

Glanders

Goose parvovirus infections (Derzsy’s disease)

Hantavirus

Heartwater (cowdriosis) Ehrlichia (Cowdria) ruminantium

Hendra virus

Herpesvirus of cervidae

Histoplasmosis

Ibaraki disease

Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis

Infectious bursal disease

Influenza (Influenza A virus)

Japanese encephalitis

Leptospirosis

Listeriosis (Listeria monocytogenes)

Louping ill

Lumpy skin disease

Lyme disease

Maedi-visna

Marek’s disease

Nairobi sheep disease

     Newcastle disease

Nipah virus

Ovine epididymitis

Paratuberculosis (Johne’s disease)

Peste des petits ruminants

Plague (Yersinia pestis)

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS)

Pseudorabies (Aujeszky’s disease)

Pullorum disease Salmonella Pullorum

Rabies

Ranavirus

Rift Valley fever

Rinderpest

Salmonellosis (Salmonella, sub-typed)

Scrapie

Screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax and Chrysomyia bezziana)

Sheep and goat pox

Small hive beetle (Aethina tumida)

Strangles

Swine dysentery (Brachyspira hyodysenteriae)

Swine vesicular disease

Theileriasis

Tick-borne fever (Cytoecetes phagocytphila)

Tissue worm (Elaphostrongylus cervi)

Transmissible gastroenteritis (TGE)

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs other than BSE, CWD and Scrapie)

Trichinellosis

Trichomoniasis

Trypanosomiasis (exotic to Canada)

Tularemia (Francisella tularensis)

Turkey viral rhinotracheitis (swollen head syndrome and avian rhinotracheitis)

Varroa mite (fluvinate-resistant)

Verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC)

Vesicular stomatitis

Viral hemorrhagic disease of rabbits

Wesselsbron’s disease

West Nile virus

Yersiniosis  

    

As of January 1, 2019, all veterinarians and directors of laboratories must report known and suspected cases of avian influenza, novel influenza and Echinococcus multilocularis infections in animals to their local OMH public health unit. Veterinary reporting requirements for all mammal bites, as well as all cases of avian chlamydiosis also remain in place.