Reportable Diseases
Oregon Administrative Rules (603-011-0212) require veterinarians to report the following diseases to the Oregon Department of Agriculture.
Any person practicing veterinary medicine in this state shall immediately notify the department by telephone of observing the following abnormalities:
- Any unidentified vesicular disease
- Any exotic disease or foreign animal disease, even if only suspected
- Any disease of unknown etiology exhibiting highly pathogenic or lethal effect
- Any exotic vector (flies and fly larvae, mites, and ticks)
- Any emerging disease: A disease, infection, or infestation in domestic or wild animals that is a threat to
terrestrial animals, aquatic animals, or humans, and meets one of the following criteria:
» An unknown agent that is causing disease in a herd/flock/premise and has the potential to result in a
significant animal or public health impact, and applied diagnostic tests have yielded negative or non-
definitive results
» A newly identified agent that is causing disease in a herd/flock/premise and has the potential to cause
significant animal or public health impact, or is occurring in multiple herds/flocks/premises
» A previously identified or known pathogenic agent that has a change in epidemiology
If you notice clinical evidence of any of these reportable diseases, you must immediately notify the ODA by telephone at (503) 986-4711:
Multiple-Species Diseases
Akbane • Anthrax • Bovine Tuberculosis • Bluetongue (serotype 8) • Brucellosis (B. abortus, B. mellitensis, B. suis) • Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever • Epizootic hemorrhagic disease • Equine encephalomyelitis (Eastern) • Equine encephalomyelitis (Western) • Equine encephalomyelitis (Venezuelan) • Foot and mouth disease • Glanders • Heartwater • Japanese encephalitis • Melioidosis • New World screwworm • Old World screwworm • Pseudorabies • Rabies • Rift Valley fever • Rinderpest • SARS-CoV-2 • Surra • Trichinellosis • Vesicular Stomatitis • West Nile virus
Poultry Diseases
Duck viral • Fowl typhoid • Highly pathogenic avian influenza • Low pathogenic avian influenza (H5 or H7 subtypes) • Pullorum disease • Salmonella enteritidis • Turkey rhinotracheitis • Virulent Newcastle disease
Cattle Diseases
Babesiosis • Bovine spongiform encephalopathy • Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia • Hemorrhagic septicemia • Lumpy skin disease • Malignant catarrhal fever • Theileriosis • Trichomoniasis • Trypanosomosis
Sheep & Goat Diseases
Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia • Mange • Nairobi sheep disease • Peste des petits ruminants • Scrapie • Sheeppox and goatpox
Horse & Other Equine Diseases
African Horse Sickness • Contagious equine metritis • Dourine • Equine infectious anemia • Equine piroplasmosis • Equine rhinopneumotitis/ equine herpesvirus-1 myeloencephalopathy (EHV1-EHM) • Hendra virus Farmed Deer and Elk Diseases Chronic wasting disease
Rabbit & Hare
Diseases Myxomatosis • Rabbit hemorrhagic disease
Swine Diseases
African swine fever • Classical swine fever • Nipah virus • Swine vesicular disease • Vesicular examthema
Other Diseases in Domestic Animals
Camelpox • Leishmaniasis
Voluntary Reporting of Diseases of Veterinary Importance
In addition to the above diseases which are required to be reported, the State Public Health Veterinarian requests that veterinarians report cases of the following diseases of veterinary importance:
- Animal Flu (such as H1N1)
- Bartonella
- Campylobacteriosis
- Coccidiosis
- Distemper
- FELV
- FIP
- FIV
- Fungal diseases (systemic)
- Giardiasis
- Heartworm
- Leptospirosis
- Lyme Disease
- MRSA
- Parvovirus
- Plague
- Psittacosis
- Rabies (also required to be reported to ODA)
- Ringworm
- Salmon Poisoning
- Salmonellosis
- Scabies
- Toxoplasmosis
These diseases can be reported to OHA using the form below:
- Reporting Form PDF
Reports on incidence of these diseases in Oregon can be found at the link:
Updated: August 10, 2023