An animal epidemic is by infection exciters a caused, a transferable and itself usually fast spreading illness of animals.

By the high economic damage with the outbreak of animal epidemics, in particular with domestic animals, special legal regulations apply to the fight of these diseases. They are by animal-you-tightness-set (TierSG), presently/immediately valid version from 22 June 2004, regulated.

Indicatorrequiring animal epidemics

Germany

A set of animal epidemics are in Germany indicate requiring, i.e. each keeper of an animal is obligated knowledge of it to give with an appropriate suspicion, to the responsible authority immediately. The indicate-requiring animal epidemics are in each case up-to-date adapted by a regulation over indicate-requiring animal epidemics (TierSeuchAnzV). In at present valid version (20 December 2005) is this:

1. Ape smallpox
2. African horse plague
3. African pig plague
4. American putrid brood
5. Sticking on blood poverty of the Einhufer (infectious anemia)
6. Sticking on blood poverty of the salmon (Infectious Salmon Anemia, ISA)
7. Sticking on pig paralysis (Teschener illness)
8. Aujeszky illness
9. Infestation with the small bee hiving beetle (Aethina tumida)
10. Infestation with that Tropilaelaps mite
11. of the horses
12. Blue tongue illness (Blue Tongue Disease)
13. Bovine Herpesvirus type 1-Infektion (BHV-1, all forms)
14. Bovine virus diarrhea (BVD)
15. Brucellose of the cattle, pigs, sheep and goats
16. Ebola virus infection
17. Enzooti of the deer
18. Enzooti Leukose of the cattle
19. Poultry plague
20. Infectious hematopoietic necrosis (IT) the Salmoniden
21. Lumpy skin illness (Dermatitis nodularis)
22. Lung epidemic of the cattle
23. Muzzle and claw epidemic (MKS)
24. Spleen fire
25. Newcastle illness
26. Plague of the small
27. Pferdeenzephalomyelitis (all forms)
28. Smallpox epidemic of the sheep and goats
29. Psittakose
30. Intoxication fire
31. Rift valley fever
32. Cattle plague
33. Rotz
34. Salmonellose of the cattle
35. Classical pig plague
36. Stomatitis vesicularis
37. Rabies
38. Transmissible Spongiforme Enzephalopathie (TSE, all forms)
39. Trichomonadenseuche of the cattle
40. Tuberkulose of the cattle
41. pig illness
42. Vibrionenseuche of the cattle
43. Virale hemorrhagic (video home system) the Salmoniden

Switzerland

In Switzerland animal epidemics are divided in 4 groups:

1. High-sticking on animal epidemics (in accordance with list A of the international office of epizootics, OIE)
2. Epidemics which can be exterminated (already exterminated by fight programs to a large extent)
3. Fighting epidemics (eliminatable diseases, fight does not aim at a damage delimitation)
4. Supervising epidemics (obligation to register)

See also

World organization for Animal Health

Related links

• TierSeuchAnzV Germany
• Animal epidemics in Switzerland

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