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WHEREAS, transboundary animal diseases pose real dangers to food security and the animal industry by threatening animal and public health, compromising food safety and security, and hampering international and local trade;

WHEREAS, global competitiveness of our exports and harnessing our full potential for trade are important because of our Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and Avian Influenza (AI) free status;

WHEREAS, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) recently posted the OIE LISTED DISEASES in its website;

WHEREAS, member countries of the OIE are required to report to the OIE the occurrence of the diseases in the said list;

WHEREAS, the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) is the lead agency on animal health, particularly the prevention, control and eradication of animal diseases;

WHEREAS, the BAI collects the information on reported diseases for official transmittal by the Chief Veterinary Officer (CVO) of the country of this information to the OIE;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, PROCESO J. ALCALA, Secretary of Agriculture, pursuant to Republic Act 8435 or the Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act (AFMA) of 1997, Section 6, Chapter 1, and Section 18, Chapter 4 of Title IV, Book IV of Executive Order 292 (Administrative Code of 1987), Section 5 of Act No. 3639 (BAI Quarantine Powers), and Articles 6 and 7 of the Consumer Act of the Philippines, and in accordance to the OIE LISTED DISEASES, do hereby issue this Order declaring the following List of notifiable diseases and that the occurrence of any of these diseases should be reported to the BAI director for proper investigation, diagnosis and control.
 

Multiple species diseases
• Anthrax	• new world screwworm
• Aujeszky’s disease	(Cochliomyia hominivorax)
• Bluetongue	• Old world screwworm
• Brucellosis (Brucella abortus)	(Chrysomya bezziana)
• Brucellosis (Brucella melitensis)	• Paratuberculosis
• Brucellosis (Brucella suis)	• Q fever
• Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever	• Rabies
• echinococcosis/hydatidosis	• Rift Valley fever
• epizootic haemorrhagic disease	• Rinderpest
• equine encephalomyelitis (Eastern)	• Surra (Trypanosoma evansi)
• Foot and mouth disease	• Trichinellosis
• Heartwater	• Tularemia
• Japanese encephalitis	• Vesicular stomatitis
• Leptospirosis	• West nile fever
Cattle diseases
• Bovine anaplasmosis	• Haemorrhagic septicaemia
• Bovine babesiosis	• Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis/
• Bovine genital campylobacteriosis	infectious pustular vulvovaginitis
• Bovine spongiform encephalopathy	• Lumpky skin disease
• Bovine tuberculosis	• Theileriosis
• Bovine viral diarrhoea	• Trichomonosis
• Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia	• Trypanosomosis (tsetse-transmitted)
• Enzootic bovine leukosis
Sheep and goat diseases
• Caprine arthritis/encephalitis	• Nairobi sheep disease
• Contagious agalactia	• Ovine epididymitis (Brucella ovis)
• Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia	• Peste des petits ruminants
• Enzootic abortion of ewes	• Salmonellosis (S. abortusovis)
(ovine chlamydiosis)	• Scrapie
• Maedi-visna	• Sheep pox and goat pox
Swine diseases
• African swine fever	• Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome
• Classical swine fever	• Swine vesicular disease
• Nipah virus encephalitis	• Transmissible gastroenteritis
• Porcine cysticercosis
Equine diseases
• African horse sickness	• Equine piroplasmosis
• Contagious equine metritis	• Equine rhinopneumonitis
• Dourine	• Equine viral arteritis
• Equine encephalomyelitis (Western)	• Glanders
• Equine infectious anaemia	• Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis
• Equine influenza
Avian diseases
• Avian chlamydiosis	• Highly pathogenic avian influenza and low
• Avian infectious bronchitis	pathogenic avian influenza in poultry
• Avian infectious laryngotracheitis	• Infectious bursal disease (Gumboro
• Avian mycoplasmosis disease)(M. gallisepticum)	• Marek’s disease
• Avian mycoplasmosis (M. synoviae)	• Newcastle disease
• duck virus hepatitis	• Pullorum disease
• Fowl Cholera	• Turkey rhinotracheitis
• Fowl typhoid
Fish diseases
• Epizootic haemtopoietic necrosis	• Koi herpesvirus disease
• Epizootic ulcerative syndrome	• Red sea bream iridoviral disease
• Infection with Gyrodactylus salaris	• Spring viraemia of carp
• Infectious haematopoietic necrosis	• Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia
• Infectious salmon anaemia
Crustacean diseases
• Crayfish plague (Aphanomyces astaci)	• Necrotising hepatopancreatitis
• Infectious hypodermal and  haematopoietic necrosis	• Taura syndrome
• Infectious myonecrosis	• White spot disease
	• White tail disease
	• Yellowhead disease
Mollusc diseases
• Infection with abalone	• Infection with Perkinsus marinus
herpes-like virus	• Infection with Perkinsus olseni
• Infection with Bonamia exitiosa	• Infection with Xenohaliotis californiensis
• Infection with Bonamia ostreae
• Infection with Marteilia refringens
Amphibians
• Infection with Batrachochytrium	• Infection with ranavirus
dendrobatidis
Bee diseases
• Acarapisosis of honey bees	• Tropilaelaps infestation of honey bees
• American foulbrood of honey bees	• Varroosis of honey bees
• european foulbrood of honey bees
• Small hive beetle infestation (Aethina tumida)
Lagomorph diseases	Other diseases
• myxomatosis	• Camelpox
• rabbit haemorrhagic disease	• Leishmaniosis

Further, the BAI is directed to provide necessary issuances and implementing guidelines to concerned offices under the department of Agriculture and its attached agencies in the national and regional level, including enjoining the assistance of veterinarians in the Local Government Units (LGUs) to report outbreaks or occurrence of these notifiable diseases in their respective areas of jurisdiction to the CVO.

This Order shall take effect immediately.


(SGD.) PROCESO J. ALCALA
Secretary