Reportable and notifiable diseases
Last updated on January 31, 2024Reportable and notifiable diseases are microbes, parasites, toxins, and syndromes that are particularly harmful. They are deemed reportable under the Animal Health Act.
This is so that the Chief Veterinarian can implement monitoring, prevention, control, and/or eradication measures to:
- Determine their presence, identity, nature, effects or spread
- Safeguard animal health
- Safeguard public health
- Avoid barriers to trade
- Address other related concerns in the public interest
Anyone who has reasonable grounds to suspect that a reportable or notifiable disease has occurred must make a report to the Chief Veterinarian within 24 hours.
Procedures and information requirements for making a report are described in the Reportable and Notifiable Disease Regulation.
Reportable and notifiable diseases in B.C.
The following is a summary of the microbes, parasites, toxins, and syndromes that are reportable or notifiable in B.C. Please see the Reportable and Notifiable Disease Regulation for details.
Note that, in addition to the specific diseases listed below, an illness affecting any animal that is known to be, or that may be, zoonotic in nature is a reportable disease if any of the following signs or indicators are present:
- The illness has never, or has rarely been, observed in British Columbia
- The illness appears in a species in which the disease has never, or has rarely, been observed
- The illness has, or appears to have, a higher pathogenicity than usual
Additionally, an illness in any animal is prescribed as a reportable disease if:
- Clusters of the illness include more animals
- Appear more frequently, or
- Appear over a larger geographic area than usual
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Diseases and toxins affecting multiple species
- Anaplasmosis
- Anthrax
- Asbestos
- Bluetongue
- Brucellosis caused by Brucella abortus, melitensis, ovis or suis
- Chronic wasting disease of cervids
- Creosote
- Dioxins
- Epizootic hemorrhagic diseases
- Foot and mouth disease
- Fuel, if it contains, or may contain, a substance that is toxic to animals
- Johne’s disease
- Lead
- Lyme disease caused by Borrelia burgdorferi
- Malignant catarrhal fever
- Plague caused by Yersina pestis
- Poly-chlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)
- Pseudorabies
- Q Fever caused by Coxiella burnetti
- Rabies
- Rift Valley fever
- Rinderpest
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever caused by Rickettsia rickettsii
- Salmonella found in an environmental sample taken in a place where an animal is, or has been, housed.
- Salmonella Dublin
- Salmonella Enteritidis
- Salmonella Heidelberg
- Salmonella Typhimurium
- Trichinellosis caused by Trichinella sprialis
- Tularaemia caused by Francisella tularensis
- Vesicular stomatitis
- Viral hemorrhagic fevers (e.g., filoviruses, bunyaviruses, hantaviruses, etc.)
- West Nile Virus
Bee diseases
- Acute Bee Paralysis virus (ABPV)
- African Honey Bee (Apis mellifera scutellata)
- American foulbrood (Pseudobacillus larvae)
- Black Queen Cell virus (BQCV)
- Cape bee (Apis mellifera capensis)
- Chalkbrood (Ascosphera apis)
- Deformed Wing virus (DWV)
- Eastern Honey Bee / Asian Honey Bee (Apis cerana)
- European Foulbrood (Mellisococcus plutonius)
- Greater wax moth (Galleria mellonella)
- Israel Acute Paralysis virus (IAPV)
- Kashmir Bee virus (KBV)
- Lesser wax moth (Achroia grisella)
- Northern Giant Hornet (Vespa mandarinia)
- Nosema disease (Nosema apis, N. ceranae)
- Southern Giant Hornet (Vespa soror)
- Yellow Legged Hornet (Vespa vilutina)
- Sacbrood virus (SBV)
- Small Hive Beetle (Aethina tumida)
- Tracheal Mite ~ Acarine disease (Acarapis woodi)
- Tropilaelaps mite (Tropilaelaps clareae)
- Varroa Destructor virus (VDV)
- Varroa mite (Varroa destructor)
Avian (bird) diseases
- Avian chlamydiosis caused by Chlamydophila psittaci
- Influenza A in poultry
- Fowl cholera caused by Pasteurella multocida
- Fowl pox
- Fowl typhoid caused by Salmonella gallinarum
- Infectious laryngotracheitis
- Mycoplasma gallisepticum, but only in turkeys kept or dealt with for commercial purposes
- Newcastle disease
- Pullorum diseases caused by Salmonella pullorum
Mammal diseases
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Cattle
- Bovine cysticercosis
- Bovine genital campylabacteriosis
- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
- Bovine trichomoniasis
- Bovine tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium bovis
- Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia
- Lumpy skin disease
Horse
- African horse sickness
- Contagious equine metritis
- Eastern, Western and Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis
- Equine infectious anaemia
- Equine herpes myeloencepalopathy
- Equine piroplasmosis caused by Babesia caballi or Theileria equi.
- Equine rhinipneumonitis
- Equine viral arteritis
Sheep and goat
- Peste des petits ruminants
- Scrapie
- Sheep and goat pox
Swine
- African swine fever
- Classical swine fever
- Influenza A
- Porcine epidemic diarrhea
- Swine vesicular disease
- Swine delta coronavirus
- Transmissible gastroenteritis
Aquatic diseases
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Crustacean
- Crayfish plague caused by Aphanomyces astaci
- Infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis caused by Infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis virus
- Infectious myonecrosis caused by Infectious myonecrosis virus
- Necrotizing hepatopancreatitis
- Taura syndrome
- White spot disease
- White tail disease caused by Macrobrachium rosenbergii, nodavirus, and extra small virus
- Yellow head disease
Finfish
- Bacterial kidney disease caused by Renibacterium salmoninarum
- Ceratomyxosis caused by Ceratomyxa Shasta
- Epizootic haematopoietic necrosis
- Enteric red mouth disease caused by Yersinia ruckeri
- Furunculosis caused by Aeromonas salmonicida
- Gyrodactylosis caused by Gyrodactylus salaris
- Infectious haematopoietic necrosis
- Infectious pancreatic necrosis
- Infectious salmon anaemia
- Epizootic ulcerative syndrome caused by Aphanomyces invadans
- Koi herpesvirus disease
- Oncorhynchus masou virus disease caused by oncorhynchus masou virus
- Red sea bream iridoviral disease caused by Red sea bream iridovirus
- Streptococcosis caused by Streptococcus iniae
- Spring viraemia of carp
- Whirling disease caused by Myxobolus cerebralis
- White sturgeon iridoviral disease
- Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia
Mollusc
- Abalone viral mortality caused by Abalone herpes-like virus
- Bonamia exitiosa
- Bonamia ostreae
- Bonamia roughleyi
- Brown ring disease caused by Vibrio tapetis
- Marteilia refringens
- Marteiliodes chungmuensis
- Marteilia sydneyi
- Mikrocytos mackini
- MSX disease caused by Haplosporidium nelson
- Perkinsus marinus
- Perkinsus olseni
- QPX caused by quahog parasite unknown
- Seaside organism disease caused by Haplosporidium costale
- Withering syndrome of abalone caused by Xenohaliotis californiensis
B.C. Centre for Disease Control
Legislation and regulation
Contact information
Office of the Chief Veterinarian
Monday - Friday
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
604-556-3003
1-800-661-9903
604-556-3010