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REPORTING ANIMAL DISEASES/DEATHS

The Importance of Reporting and Tracking Local Animal Disease

Does Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever occur in dogs in Los Angeles County?
Have there been any cases local of Leptospirosis in dogs in the past five years?
Are there any new or emerging zoonotic diseases in our county?

Many veterinarians and physicians need to know answers to these questions and others. By tracking zoonotic diseases, outbreaks, and rare diseases, Veterinary Public Health is able to alert local practitioners about infectious diseases they might see in their patients. Veterinarians and animal health workers may register to receive e-mailed Animal Health Alerts, and compiled data is made available on this website through maps and outbreak reports.

Legal Reporting Requirement

These diseases and outbreaks can only be tracked when local veterinarians, shelters, and wildlife rehabilitators report cases to Veterinary Public Health.

Los Angeles County Ordinances 10.64.020 and 10.72.010 require reporting of all infectious animal diseases and outbreaks. In order to better focus disease tracking efforts, Veterinary Public Health has created and will update a reporting Priority List (see below). Outbreaks and clusters of illnesses not seen on the list are still reportable, as are any unusual diseases. Newly emerging individual diseases may be added to the Priority List in the future.

What Needs to Be Reported?

Occurrence of any unusual disease
Outbreak or cluster (3 or more cases) of animal disease/deaths
Animal illness concurrent with human illness
Disease not endemic to area
Individual cases of diseases in PRIORITY LIST (see below)

Urgency Reporting Requirements
†Report immediately to Veterinary Public Health - Rabies Control Program (VPH-RCP). Tel. 562-401-7088 or 877-747-2243
◊Report w/in 24 hrs to VPH-RCP and California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Tel. 909-947-4462
•Report w/in 24 hrs to VPH-RCP
√Report w/in 2 days to VPH-RCP and CDFA
⁷ Report w/in 7 calendar days to VPH-RCP

DISEASE PRIORITY LIST

◊African Horse Sickness
◊African Swine Fever
◊African Trypanosomiasis
†Anthrax
†Avian Influenza
◊Babesiosis
√Bluetongue
√Bovine Leukemia
†Botulism
◊Bovine Pleuropneumonia
◊Bovine Piroplasmosis
†◊Brucellosis
⁷Campylobacteriosis
⁷Canine Influenza
⁷Chagas Disease
⁷Coccidioidomycosis
√Contagious Agalactia
⁷Distemper
•Domoic Acid Poisoning
◊Dourine
⁷Ehrlichiosis
√Equine Encephalomyelitis

√Equine Infectious Anemia
◊Equine piroplasmosis
√Equine rhinopneumonia
√Equine Viral Arteritis
◊Exotic Newcastle Disease
◊Foot and Mouth Disease
◊Fowl Plague
⁷Giardia
◊Glanders
◊Heartwater
⁷Heartworm
◊Hog Cholera
√Johne’s Disease
•Leptospirosis
√Listeriosis
⁷Lyme Disease
√Malignant Catarrhal Fever
•MRSA
◊Ornithosis
⁷Parvovirus
†Plague
•Psittacosis

√Pseudorabies
†Q Fever
•Rabies
◊Rift Valley Fever
◊Rinderpest
•Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
•◊Salmonellosis
⁷Salmon Poisoning Disease
◊Scabies, Cattle or Sheep
◊Scrapie
◊Screw worms
⁷Tetanus
†Toxin Exposure
•Tuberculosis
†Tularemia
⁷Vaccine preventable diseases:
Distemper, parvo, panleuk.
◊Vesicular Exanthema
◊Vesicular Stomatitis
†Viral Encephalitis
(EEE, WEEE, VEE)
•West Nile Virus
•Yersiniosis

** Ringworm and roundworm are not reportable

REPORTING FORMS AND ONLINE REPORTING
Please use the following forms to report specific diseases. Print the form, complete by hand, and fax in to our office at 562-401-7112. To report all other diseases that do not have specific form, please use the general form or online link at the bottom.

SPECIFIC DISEASE REPORTING FORMS
Bat Rabies Testing Submission
Border Puppy Illness or Death
Canine Influenza
Coccidioidomycosis
Domestic Animal Bitten by Wildlife (i.e. potential rabies exposure)
Heartworm
Leptospirosis
MRSA
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Vaccine Preventable Disease (i.e. parvo, distemper, panleukopenia)

GENERAL USE ANIMAL DISEASE REPORTING FORM
Animal Death and Disease
ONLINE Animal Death and Disease Reporting Form Link