Page 1 of 2 Amendment of Quarantine Requirements for the Importation of Deer  
 
(In case of any discrepancy between the English version and the Chinese text of these Requirements, 
the Chinese text shall govern.)  
Promulgated by Council of Agriculture on November 26, 1986  
First amendment by Council of Agriculture on June 9, 1993  
Second amendment by Council of Agriculture on December 5, 1994  
 
 
1.  Deer shall be imported only from countr ies or zones recognized  by the Council 
of Agriculture as free from foot and mouth dise ase and rinderpest. , contagious 
bovine pleuropneumonia, and African swine fever.  
 
2. The deer shall originate from farms where bluetongue, tuberculosis, 
paratuberculosis ( Johne's disease ), malignant catarrhal fever, and brucellosis 
have not occurred in the  previous year  and epizootic hemorrhagic disease of deer 
and leptospirosis have not occurred during the  past 6 months.  In addition, the 
deer shall be inspected and found free from clinical evidence of any 
communicable disease during the pre-export quarant ine period prior to shipment.  
 3. The deer shall originate from state s or zones where  vesicular stomatitis has not 
occurred in the previous year.  
 
4. The deer shall be detained for pre-export quarantine  in an approved isolat ed 
quarantine premises under the  supervision of the animal quarantine authorities of 
the exporting country for 14 days prior to shipment. During the pre -export 
quarantine , the deer shall be subject to the following tests with negative results. 
The intradermal tuberculin test for tubercul osis shall be carried out within 60- 90 
days prior to shipment and the test interval between the said test and the previous 
one shall exceed 60 days.  
(1) Foot and mouth disease: serum neutralization test (virus neutralization, VN ) 
or enzyme -linked immunosor bent assay  (ELISA) or complement fixation 
test (CFT ).  
(2) Tuberculosis: intradermal tuberculin test.   
(3) Paratuberculosis ( Johne's disease ): ELISA or Delayed -type hypersensitivity 
test (DTH) .   Page 2 of 2 (4) Bluetongue: ELISA or Agar g el immunodiffusion (AGID) or polymerase 
chain reaction (PCR ) or VN .  
(5) Vesicular stomatitis: serum neutralization test VN or ELISA or CFT .  
(6) Leptospirosis: agglutination -lysis test for Leptospira canicola , Leptospira 
pomona, Leptospira icterohaemorrhagiae ; otherwise  the deer should be 
injected with oxytetracycl ine (20 mg/kg) once at an interval of 14 days with 
the second injection given 2 day s prior to shipment.   
(7) Brucellosis: ELISA or CFT or Buffered Brucella  antigen test (BBAT ) or 
Fluorescence polarization assay  (FPA ).  
(8) Other diseases and diagnostic tests provisionally designated.  
The diagnostic tests described above may be exempted for the countr ies where, 
according to the report of the World Organization for Animal Health ( OIE)  or the 
relevant epidemiological information,  have been free from the above diseases for 
more than 5 years.  
 
5. The deer shall not be vaccinated against foot and mouth disease or with any 
other vaccine  that has not been approved by the animal quarantine authority of 
this country
7. To import deer, a n original veterinary certificate  in English issued by the animal 
quarantine authori ties of the exporting country  should be provided.  The 
certificate should include dates of quarantine detention, dates of sample collections, test methods, dates of  tests, test results, and the relevant information 
designated in Articles 2 to 5 of this requirement.  . 
 
6. The deer shall be  transported with clean containers and vehicles disinfected with 
officially  approved disinfectant.  In addition, the deer shall not be transshipped 
through the countr ies or zones where foot and mouth disease, rinderpest, 
contagious bovine pleuropneumonia or  African swine fever is known to occur.  
No supplementary feed, fodder or beddings shall be supplied or other animals be 
loaded during the transportation .