Reportable Communicable Diseases
The following are reportable diseases that must be reported to state (573) 751-3377 or federal (573) 636-3116 officials within 24 hours of suspicion or diagnosis:
Aquaculture (Fish)
- Infectious salmon anemia
- Spring viremia of carp
Avian (Poultry, chickens, turkeys & birds)
- Avian infectious encephalomyelitis
- Avian influenza (High pathogenic, H5, H7)
- Infectious laryngotracheitis
- Newcastle disease (VVND)
Bovine (Cattle & bison)
- Anthrax
- Bluetongue
- Bovine babesiosis (Texas fever, piroplasmosis)
- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)
- Brucellosis
- Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia
- Foot-and-mouth disease
- Heartwater
- Pseudorabies
- Rift valley fever
- Rinderpest (cattle plague)
- Screwworm
- Tuberculosis
- Vesicular stomatitis
Canine (Dogs) - Feline (Cats)
- Rabies
Caprine (Goat) - Ovine (Sheep)
- Brucellosis caused by Brucella meletensis and B. ovis
- Foot-and-mouth disease
- Goat and sheep pox
- Heartwater
- Peste des petits ruminants (kata)
- Rift Valley fever
- Scrapie
- Screwworm
- Tuberculosis
- Vesicular stomatitis
Equine (Horses)
- African Horse sickness
- Babesiosis (piroplasmosis)
- Contagious equine metritis
- Dourine (equine trypanosomiasis)
- Eastern equine encephalomyelitis
- Equine infectious anemia (EIA)
- Equine piroplasmosis
- Equine rhinopneumonitis
- Equine viral arteritis
- Glanders
- Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis
- Vesicular Stomatitis
- Western equine encephalomyelitis
All Species
- Anthrax
- Brucellosis
- Rabies
- Tuberculosis
- Vesicular stomatitis
Porcine (Swine, pigs & feral swine)
- African swine fever
- Brucellosis
- Classical swine fever (Hog cholera)
- Foot-and-mouth disease
- Pseudorabies
- Swine vesicular disease
- Vesicular stomatitis
Cervidae (Elk & deer)
- Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)
- Foot-and-mouth disease
- Tuberculosis
Communicable Diseases
The following must be reported to the Missouri Department of Health at (573) 751-6113 within 24 hours of suspicion or diagnosis:
- Rabies
For further information, contact the Division of Animal Health at (573) 751-3377, or e-mail us at Animal.Health@mda.mo.gov. To view a complete list of reportable diseases please visit www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/nahss/disease_status.htm.
