Oregon Administrative Rules (603-011-0212) require veterinarians to report the following diseases to the Oregon Department of Agriculture.
Any person practicing veterinary medicine in this state shall immediately notify the department by telephone of observing the following abnormalities:
(1) Any unidentified vesicular disease;
(2) Any exotic disease or foreign animal disease, even if only suspected;
(3) Any disease of unknown etiology exhibiting highly pathogenic or lethal effect; or
(4) Any person practicing veterinary medicine in this state shall immediately notify the department by telephone of clinical evidence of any of the following diseases:
If you notice clinical evidence of any of the following diseases, you must immediately notify the ODA by telephone at (503) 986-4680:
Multi-Species Diseases
- Anthrax
- Babesiosis/Piroplasmosis
- Bluetongue
- Brucellosis (abortus, mellitensis, suis)
- Foot and mouth disease
- Pseudorabies
- Rabies (also report to State Public Health Veterinarian)
- SARS-CoV-2
- Vesicular Stomatitis
Cattle Diseases
- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
- Bovine tuberculosis
- Malignant catarrhal fever
- Trichomoniasis
Equine Diseases
- Contagious equine metritis
- Equine encephalomyelitis (WEE, EEE, VEE and WNV)
- Equine Herpes Virus-1 neurologic form (EHV-1 neurologic form)
- Equine infectious anemia
- Equine viral arteritis
Sheep and Goat Diseases
- Scrapie
Swine Diseases
- Classical swine fever
- Swine Enteric Coronavirus Diseases (SECD). Includes Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDv) and Porcine Delta Coronavirus (PDCoV)
- Swine Influenza
Poultry Diseases
- Avian chlamydiosis
- Avian infectious laryngotracheitis
- Exotic Newcastle disease
- Notifiable avian influenza
- Pullorum disease
- Salmonella enteritidis
Lagomorph (Rabbits & Hares) Diseases
- Myxomatosis
- Rabbit hemorrhagic disease
Voluntary Reporting of Diseases of Veterinary Importance
In addition to the above diseases which are required to be reported, the State Public Health Veterinarian requests that veterinarians report cases of the following diseases of veterinary importance:
- Animal Flu (such as H1N1)
- Bartonella
- Campylobacteriosis
- Coccidiosis
- Distemper
- FELV
- FIP
- FIV
- Fungal diseases (systemic)
- Giardiasis
- Heartworm
- Leptospirosis
- Lyme Disease
- MRSA
- Parvovirus
- Plague
- Psittacosis
- Rabies (also required to be reported to ODA)
- Ringworm
- Salmon Poisoning
- Salmonellosis
- Scabies
- Toxoplasmosis
These diseases can be reported to OHA using the form below:
- Reporting Form PDF
Reports on incidence of these diseases in Oregon can be found at the link: