List of notifiable animal diseases

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List of notifiable animal diseases

Links for the diseases below are from GOV.UK, World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) and UK National Bee Unit.

Disease types	Species affected	Last confirmed case in Jersey
Anthrax	Cattle, sheep and goats, and all other ruminant animals, horses, pigs, dogs and four-footed mammals kept in captivity	1966
African horse sickness	Horses, donkeys and zebras	Never
African swine fever	Pigs	Never
Aujeszky's disease	Pigs and other mammals	Never
Avian influenza	All species of birds	19 July 2023
Avian chlamydiosis (Psittacosis otherwise known as Ornithosis)	Birds	2012
Bluetongue	Ruminant animals, cattle, sheep and goats	Never
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy	Cattle	2002
Bovine tuberculosis	Cattle	Never
Bovine viral diarrhoea	Cattle	Never
Brucellosis	Cattle	1936
Chronic wasting disease	Deer, moose, or elk	Never
Classical swine fever	Pigs	1963
Contagious agalactia	Sheep and goats	Never
Contagious epididymitis	Sheep (rams)	Never
Contagious equine metritis	Horses	Never
Contagious bovine pleuro-pneumonia	Cattle	Never
Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia	Goats and sheep	Never
Dourine	Horses	Never
Ebola in non-human primates	Non-Human primates	Never
Equine viral encephalomyelitis	Horses	Never
Echinococcus multilocularis	Dogs, foxes and rodents	Never
Enzootic bovine leucosis	Cattle	Never
Epizootic lymphangitis	Horses	Never
Epizootic haemorrhagic disease	Deer	Never
Equine infectious anaemia (swamp fever)	Horses	Never
Equine viral arteritis	Horses	Never
Foot and mouth disease	Cattle, sheep and goats and all other ruminant animals and pigs	1981
Glanders	Horses	Never
Hendra virus	Pteropid fruit bats, horses and other domestic animals	Never
Infection with Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans	Amphibians	Never
Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis or infectious pustular vulvovaginitis	Cattle	Never
Lumpy skin disease	Cattle	Never
Newcastle disease	Poultry	1986
Nipah disease	Pteropid fruit bats, pigs and other domestic animals	Never
Monkey pox	Rodents and foxes	Never
Paramyxovirus infection	Pigeons	2022
Peste des petits ruminants (goat plague)	Goats and sheep	Never
Porcine epidemic diarrhoea	Pigs	Never
Rabies	Any animal that are mammals (not human)	Never
Rabies in bats	Bats	Never
Rift valley fever	Cattle, sheep and goats	Never
Rinderpest virus	Cattle	Never The rinderpest virus was eradicated worldwide in 2011
Scrapie	Sheep and goats	Never
Sheep and goat pox	Sheep and goats	Never
Sheep scab	Sheep	Never
Surra (Trypanosoma evansi)	Camels, cattle, buffalos, donkeys, llamas, mules, pigs, goats, sheep, dogs and cats	Never
Swine influenza	Pigs	Never
Swine vesicular disease	Pigs	Never
Teschen disease	Pigs	Never
Trichinellosis	Pigs and horses	Never
Vesicular stomatitis	Cattle, pigs and horses	Never
West Nile Fever	Horses	Never
Honey bee diseases and pests
American foulbrood	Honey bees	2021
European foulbrood	Honey bees	Never
Small hive beetle	Honey bees	Never
Tropilaelaps mite (any species)	Honey bees	Never

List of notifiable animal diseases

If you suspect that an animal has a notifiable disease you're legally required to call the States Veterinary Officer on +44 (0) 1534 441600.

Report a disease

List of notifiable animal diseases