Page 1 of 2 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  
Third a mendment by Council of Agriculture on March 7, 2014  
 
 
1. Deer shall be imported only from countr ies or zones recognized  by the Council of 
Agriculture as free from foot and mouth disease  and rinderpest . 
 
2. The deer shall originate from states or zones where vesicular stomatitis has not 
occurred in the previous year.  
The farms of origin shall be complied with:  
(1) The bluetongu e, tuberculosis, paratuberculosis (Johne's disease), malignant 
catarrhal fever, and brucellosis have not occurred in the previous year; and  
(2) The epizootic hemorrhagic disease of deer and leptospirosis have not occurred 
during the past 6 months.   
 
3. The de er shall be detained for pre -export quarantine for at least 14 days prior to 
shipment in the approved isolated quarantine premises under the supervision of 
veterinarians of, or veterinarians accredited by, the animal quarantine authority.  
During the pre -export quarantine, the animals shall be inspected as free from 
clinical evidence of any communicable disease and subject to the following tests 
with negative results:  
(1) Foot and mouth disease: serum neutralization test (virus neutralization, VN) or 
enzyme -linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) or complement fixation test 
(CFT).  
(2) Tuberculosis: intradermal tuberculin test. The test 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.  
(3) Paratuberculosis (Johne's disease): ELISA or Delayed -type hypersensitivity test 
(DTH).  
(4) Bluetongue: ELISA or Agar gel immunodiffusion (AGID) or polymerase chain  Page 2 of 2 reaction (PCR) or VN.  
(5) Vesicular stomatitis: VN or ELISA or CFT.  
(6) Leptospirosis: agglutinat ion-lysis test for Leptospira canicola , Leptospira 
pomona , Leptospira icterohaemorrhagiae ; otherwise the deer should be 
injected with oxytetracycline (20 mg/kg) once within 14 days prior to 
shipment.  
(7) Brucellosis: ELISA or CFT or Buffered Brucella  antigen t est (BBAT) or 
Fluorescence polarization assay (FPA).  
(8) Other diseases and diagnostic tests provisionally designated.  
 
The diagnostic tests described above may be exempted for the countries where, 
according to the report of the World Organization for Animal H ealth (OIE) or the 
relevant epidemiological information, have been free from the above diseases for 
more than 5 years.  
 
4. The deer shall not be vaccinated against foot and mouth disease or with any other 
vaccine that has not been approved by the animal qu arantine authority of this 
country.  
 
5. 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 countries 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.  
 
6. To import deer, an original veterinary ce rtificate in English issued by the animal 
quarantine authorities of the exporting country should be provided.  The 
certificate should include dates of quarantine detention, dates of sample collections, 
name of the test laboratory, methods and results of th e tests, and the relevant 
information desig nated in Articles 2 to 4 of these R equirement s.