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WORLD ORGANISATION FOR ANIMAL HEALTH
Protecting animals, preserving our future
TERRESTRIAL ANIMAL
HEALTH CODE
VOLUME II
Recommendations applicable to OIE listed diseases
and other diseases of importance to international trade
Twenty-second edition, 2013

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OIE - Terrestrial Animal Health Code
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Contents
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CONTENTS
VOLUME II
Recommendations applicable to OIE listed diseases and other diseases of importance to international
trade
Foreword v
User's guide vii
Glossary ix
SECTION 8. MULTIPLE SPECIES
Chapter 8.1. Anthrax 385
Chapter 8.2. Infection with Aujeszky's disease virus 389
Chapter 8.3. Bluetongue 397
Chapter 8.4. Infection with Echinococcus granulosus 409
Chapter 8.5. Infection with Echinococcus multilocularis 412
Chapter 8.6. Foot and mouth disease 414
Chapter 8.7. Heartwater 435
Chapter 8.8. Japanese encephalitis 436
Chapter 8.9. New world screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) and Old world screwworm (Chrysomya
bezziana) 437
Chapter 8.10. Paratuberculosis 439
Chapter 8.11. Infection with rabies virus 440
Chapter 8.12. Rift Valley fever 443
Chapter 8.13. Infection with rinderpest virus 447
Chapter 8.14. Infection with Trichinella spp. 452
Chapter 8.15. Tularemia 456
Chapter 8.16. Vesicular stomatitis 457
Chapter 8.17. West Nile fever 460
SECTION 9. APIDAE
Chapter 9.1. Infestation of honey bees with Acarapis woodi 465
Chapter 9.2. Infection oh honey bees with Paenibacillus larvae (American foulbrood) 468
Chapter 9.3. Infection of honey bees with Melissococcus plutonius (European foulbrood) 471
Chapter 9.4. Infestation with Aethina tumida (Small hive beetle) 474
Chapter 9.5. Infestation of honey bees with Tropilaelaps spp. 479
Chapter 9.6. Infestation of honey bees with Varroa spp. (Varroosis) 483
SECTION 10. AVES
Chapter 10.1. Avian chlamydiosis 487
Chapter 10.2. Avian infectious bronchitis 488
Chapter 10.3. Avian infectious laryngotracheitis 490
Chapter 10.4. Infection with avian influenza viruses 492
Chapter 10.5. Avian mycoplasmosis (Mycoplasma gallisepticum) 508
Chapter 10.6. Duck virus hepatitis 510
Chapter 10.7. Fowl typhoid and pullorum disease 512
Chapter 10.8. Infectious bursal disease (Gumboro disease) 513
Chapter 10.9. Newcastle disease 515
SECTION 11. BOVIDAE
Chapter 11.1. Bovine anaplasmosis 525
Chapter 11.2. Bovine babesiosis 526

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Chapter 11.3. Bovine brucellosis 527
Chapter 11.4. Bovine genital campylobacteriosis 530
Chapter 11.5. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy 531
Chapter 11.6. Bovine tuberculosis 547
Chapter 11.7. Bovine tuberculosis of farmed cervidae 551
Chapter 11.8. Infection with Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides SC (Contagious bovine
pleuropneumonia) 555
Chapter 11.9. Enzootic bovine leukosis 561
Chapter 11.10. Haemorrhagic septicaemia (Pasteurella multocida serotypes 6:b and 6:e) 564
Chapter 11.11. Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis/ infectious pustular vulvovaginitis 566
Chapter 11.12. Lumpy skin disease (caused by group III virus, type Neethling) 569
Chapter 11.13. Theileriosis 573
Chapter 11.14. Trichomonosis 574
SECTION 12. EQUIDAE
Chapter 12.1. Infection with African horse sickness virus 575
Chapter 12.2. Contagious equine metritis 584
Chapter 12.3. Dourine 585
Chapter 12.4. Equine encephalomyelitis (Eastern and Western) 587
Chapter 12.5. Equine infectious anaemia 588
Chapter 12.6. Infection with equine influenza virus 589
Chapter 12.7. Equine piroplasmosis 592
Chapter 12.8. Equine rhinopneumonitis 593
Chapter 12.9. Infection with equine arteritis virus 594
Chapter 12.10. Glanders 597
Chapter 12.11. Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis 598
SECTION 13. LAGOMORPHA
Chapter 13.1. Myxomatosis 601
Chapter 13.2. Rabbit haemorrhagic disease 602
SECTION 14. OVIDAE AND CAPRIDAE
Chapter 14.1. Caprine and ovine brucellosis (excluding Brucella ovis) 605
Chapter 14.2. Caprine arthritis/encephalitis 609
Chapter 14.3. Contagious agalactia 610
Chapter 14.4. Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia 611
Chapter 14.5. Infection with Chlamydophila abortus (Enzootic abortion of ewes, ovine chlamydiosis) 614
Chapter 14.6. Maedi-visna 616
Chapter 14.7. Ovine epididymitis (Brucella ovis) 617
Chapter 14.8. Infection with peste des petits ruminants virus 619
Chapter 14.9. Scrapie 631
Chapter 14.10. Sheep pox and goat pox 636
SECTION 15. SUIDAE
Chapter 15.1. African swine fever 639
Chapter 15.2. Classical swine fever 644
Chapter 15.3. Porcine brucellosis 657
Chapter 15.4. Swine vesicular disease 659
Chapter 15.5. Transmissible gastroenteritis 664

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FOREWORD
The OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code (Terrestrial Code) sets out standards for the improvement of terrestrial animal
health and welfare and veterinary public health worldwide, including through standards for safe international trade in
terrestrial animals (mammals, birds and bees) and their products. The health measures in the Terrestrial Code should
be used by the veterinary authorities of importing and exporting countries to provide for early detection, reporting and
control agents pathogenic to terrestrial animals and, in the case of zoonoses, for humans, and to prevent their transfer
via international trade in terrestrial animals and terrestrial animal products, while avoiding unjustified sanitary barriers to
trade.
The health measures in the Terrestrial Code have been formally adopted by the World Assembly of OIE Delegates,
which constitutes the organisation's highest decision-making body. The 22nd edition incorporates modifications to the
Terrestrial Code agreed at the 81th OIE General Session in May 2013. The 2013 edition includes revised information on
the following subjects: glossary; notification of diseases, infections, infestations and epidemiological information; criteria
for the inclusion of diseases, infections and infestations on the OIE list; procedures for self declaration and for official
recognition by the OIE; evaluation of Veterinary Services; veterinary legislation; collection and processing of bovine,
small ruminant and porcine semen; collection and processing of in vivo derived embryos from livestock and horses;
official health control of bee diseases; biosecurity procedures in poultry production; responsible and prudent use of
antimicrobial agents in veterinary medicine; zoonoses transmissible from non-human primates; introduction to the
recommendations for animal welfare; use of animals in research and education; animal welfare and beef cattle
production systems; infection with rabies virus; infection with rinderpest virus; infection with Trichinella spp.; infestation
of honey bees with Acarapis woodi; infection of honey bees with Paenibacillus larvae (American foulbrood); infection of
honey bees with Melissococcus plutonius (European foulbrood); infestation with Aethina tumida (small hive beetle);
infestation of honey bees with Tropilaelaps spp.; infestation of honey bees with Varroa spp. (varroosis); infection with
avian influenza viruses; Newcastle disease; infection with Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides SC (contagious
bovine pleuropneumonia); infection with equine arteritis virus; infection with Chlamydophila abortus (enzootic abortion
of ewes); infection with peste des petits ruminants virus; and infection with classical swine fever virus.
This edition includes three new chapters on infection with Echinococcus granulosus, on infection with Echinococcus
multilocularis, and on animal welfare and broiler chicken production systems.
The development of these standards and recommendations is the result of the ongoing work by the OIE Terrestrial
Animal Health Standards Commission (the Code Commission). This Commission, which comprises six elected
members, meets twice yearly to address its work programme. The Commission draws upon the expertise of
internationally renowned scientific experts to prepare draft texts for new texts in the Terrestrial Code and to revise
existing texts in the light of advances in veterinary science. The views of OIE National Delegates are systematically
sought through the twice yearly circulation of draft texts. The Code Commission collaborates closely with other Specialist
Commissions of the OIE, including the Aquatic Animal Health Standards Commission, the Biological Standards
Commission and the Scientific Commission for Animal Diseases, to ensure the recommendations contained in the
Terrestrial Code are based upon the latest scientific information.
The measures recommended in the Terrestrial Code are formally adopted by the World Assembly comprising the plenary
meeting of OIE National Delegates, who are in most cases the heads of OIE Member Countries' veterinary authorities.
The World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS
Agreement) formally recognises the role of the OIE to specify standards and recommendations as the international
references for animal health and zoonotic diseases. The SPS Agreement provides a multilateral framework,
incorporating WTO Members' rights and disciplines, to guide the development, adoption and enforcement of sanitary
measures to facilitate safe international trade. According to the SPS Agreement, WTO Members should provide a
scientific justification for their import health measures. It is preferable that these be based on OIE recommendations.
Where there are no OIE recommendations or in cases where a government chooses to apply more restrictive conditions
than those recommended by the OIE, the importing country should base its animal health measures on an import risk
analysis as described in the Terrestrial Code. The Terrestrial Code is thus a key part of the WTO legal framework for
international trade.
The Terrestrial Code is published annually in the three official OIE languages (English, French and Spanish). An
unofficial translation into Russian is also available from the OIE upon request. The Terrestrial Code may be viewed and
downloaded from the OIE Web site at http://www.oie.int.