Reporting a suspected notifiable disease

If you suspect an animal has a notifiable disease it is a legal requirement that you inform the States Veterinary Officer.

It is very important to do this as these diseases may be passed between animals and people, or they may have a significant economic impact.

If your animal is unwell but you don't suspect a notifiable disease, you should contact your private veterinary surgeon.

List of notifiable diseases

Disease types	Species affected	Last confirmed case in Jersey
Anthrax	Cattle, sheep and goats, and all other ruminant animals, horses, pigs, dogs and four-footed mammals kept in captivity	1966
African horse sickness	Horses, donkeys and zebras	Never
African swine fever	Pigs	Never
Aujeszky's disease	Pigs and other mammals	Never
Avian influenza	All species of birds	Present
Bluetongue	Ruminant animals, cattle, sheep and goats	Never
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy	Cattle	2002
Bovine tuberculosis	Cattle	Unknown
Bovine viral diarrhoea	Cattle	Unknown
Brucellosis	Cattle	1936
Chronic wasting disease	Deer, moose or elk	Never
Classical swine fever	Pigs	1963
Contagious agalactia	Sheep and goats	Never
Contagious epididymitis	Sheep (rams)	Never
Contagious equine metritis	Horses	Unknown
Contagious bovine pleuro-pneumonia	Cattle	Never
Dourine	Horses	Never
Eastern viral encephalomyelitis	Horses	Never
Enzootic bovine leucosis	Cattle	Never
Epizootic lymphangitis	Horses	Never
Epizootic haemorrhagic disease	Deer	Never
Equine infectious anaemia	Horses	Never
Equine viral arteritis	Horses	Unknown
Equine viral encephalomyelitis: Eastern equine encephalomyelitis Japanese encephalitis Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis West Nile fever Western equine encephalomyelitis	Horses	Never
Foot and mouth disease	Cattle, sheep and goats and all other ruminant animals and pigs	1981
Glanders	Horses	Never
Goat and sheep pox	Goats and sheep	Never
Hendra virus	Pteropid fruit bats, horses and other domestic animals	Never
Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis / infectious pustular vulvovaginitis	Cattle	Never
Lumpy skin disease	Cattle	Never
Newcastle disease	Poultry	1986
Nipah disease	Pteropid fruit bats, pigs and other domestic animals	Never
Monkey pox	Rodents and foxes	Never
Paramyxovirus infection	Pigeons	2022
Peste des petits ruminants (goat plague)	Sheep and goats	Never
Porcine epidemic diarrhoea	Pigs	Never
Psittacosis (also known as Ornithosis)	Birds	2012
Rabies	Any animal (other than man) belonging to any of the orders of mammals	Never
Rabies in bats	Bats	Never
Rift valley fever	Cattle, sheep and goats	Never
Rinderpest virus	Cattle	Never
Scrapie	Sheep and goats	Unknown
Sheep scab	Sheep	Unknown
Swine influenza	Pigs	Unknown
Swine vesicular disease	Pigs	Never
Tapeworm (Echinococcus multilocularis)	Dogs, foxes and rodents	Never
Teschen disease	Pigs	Never
Trichinellosis	Pigs and horses	Never
Vesicular stomatitis	Cattle, pigs and horses	Never
Honey bee diseases and pests
American foulbrood	Honey bees	2021
European foulbrood	Honey bees	Never
Small hive beetle	Honey bees	Never
Tropilaelaps mite (any species)	Honey bees	Never