Reportable Equine Diseases (Updated as of March 1, 2006)
Anthrax
African Horse Sickness
Brucellosis
Contagious Equine Metritis
Dourine (equine trypanosomiasis)
** Equine Neurologic Syndrome (EHV, WNV, EPM, Rabies)
Equine Viral Arteritis
Equine Encephalomyelitis
Equine Infectious Anemia
Glanders
Piroplasmosis
Potomac Horse Fever*
Rabies*
Salmonellosis
Screw Worms
Suspected Foreign Animal Disease
Tuberculosis
Vesicular Lesions
Vesicular Stomatitis
West Nile Virus*

Zoonotic Diseases
The following are diseases which, if diagnosed in animals, must be reported to the local health officer in the jurisdiction where the animal resides. A copy of DHMH 1140 is included on p19. Local health department contacts are included on page 20. The health department may not be interested in investigating all cases of disease on this list. We recommend you contact them by telephone before submitting a written report.

Animal bites
Anthrax
Arbovirus infections
EEE, WEE, LaCross, St. Louis, Yellow fever, WNV
Botulism
Brucellosis
Campylobacter infection
Coccidioidomycosis
Cryptosporidiosis
Cyclosporiasis
Ehrlichiosis
Encephalitis, infectious
E. coli 0157:h7 infection
Epsilon toxin of Clostridium perfringens
Giardiasis
Glanders
Hantavirus infection
Isosporiasis
Leptospirosis
Listeriosis
Lyme disease
Microsporidiosis
Mycobacteriosis, other than tuberculosis and leprosy
Pesticide related illness
Plague
Psittacosis
Q fever
Rabies
Ricin toxin
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Salmonellosis
Trichinosis
Tuberculosis
Tularemia
Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (all)
Yersiniosis

For diseases related to other animals, go to: www.mda.state.md.us/animal_health/diseases/index.php

*Reportable to State Animal Health Officials Only
** Equine Neurologic Syndrome: horses with central neurologic signs in the absence of noninfectious cause or where infectious cause is suspected or cannot be ruled out. Collect nasal swab, red top and purple top tubes.
All others should be reported to State and Federal Animal Health Officials.

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