Virginia Administrative Code › Title 2 - AGRICULTURE › Agency 5 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES › Chapter 206 - REGULATION FOR SCRAPIE ERADICATION › Section 2VAC5-206-50 - Scrapie management

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
All known cases of scrapie and any sheep or goat known to
				  originate from a scrapie-infected or source flock or to have had contact with
				  scrapie-infected animals, unless determined not to be a high-risk animal and
				  released for movement by the state of origin, or any sheep or goat showing
				  clinical signs of scrapie not known to be caused by some other disease or
				  injury shall be isolated from all other nonaffected animals and reported by an
				  accredited veterinarian to the State Veterinarian within 24 hours of the
				  isolation.
Upon notification of known cases of scrapie and all suspected
				  cases of scrapie, or that a flock received a high-risk animal, was the flock of
				  birth of a positive animal, or was the flock in which a scrapie positive female
				  animal resided, the flock shall be quarantined, investigated, all animals in
				  the flock individually identified, and a risk analysis conducted. A diagnostic
				  plan shall be developed and reviewed by the State Veterinarian utilizing
				  approved live diagnostic tests and submission of appropriate samples to an
				  approved laboratory for scrapie testing upon the death or destruction of any
				  animals in a flock quarantined for scrapie. All flocks shall remain under
				  quarantine until a determination of the status of the flock is made. Animals
				  that are not needed for testing to determine the status of the flock and that
				  are not high-risk, suspect, or positive animals may be released based on a risk
				  assessment or as provided in a flock plan. All flocks under quarantine shall be
				  examined at least yearly, or more frequently as determined by the State
				  Veterinarian, and an inventory of all animals in the flock recorded with all
				  deaths, sales to slaughter, asallowed by the State Veterinarian and destruction
				  accounted for. Upon confirmation of the existence of scrapie in a flock, a
				  thorough epidemiological report of all source flocks and contacts with other
				  animals shall be documented and a risk analysis conducted. Subsequently flocks
				  that are identified as source or as infected flocks and all flocks that
				  received high-risk animals shall be quarantined, investigated, all animals in
				  flock individually identified, and testing conducted if needed to determine the
				  status of the flock. Trace information for scrapie positive and high-risk
				  animals to flocks outside Virginia will be reported to the affected state as
				  well as APHIS.
Test positive or suspect animals shall be moved only with
				  the approval of the State Veterinarian, for transportation to a USDA-approved
				  research facility or for the purpose of destruction.
All known scrapie-infected and source flocks and high-risk
				  animals shall be quarantined with movements of animals only (i) to slaughter,
				  (ii) to feedlots under permit and quarantine for later movement to slaughter,
				  (iii) for destruction, or (iv) to a USDA-approved research facility. Animals
				  destroyed as a result of this section will be disposed of in a manner approved
				  by the State Veterinarian.
Infected and source flocks may be released from quarantine
				  after completion of a USDA flock plan or in a USDA-approved pilot project flock
				  plan that includes the owners agreement to comply with a five-year postexposure
				  monitoring and management plan. The State Veterinarian may release any
				  suspected case of scrapie from quarantine when other causes of the symptoms are
				  confirmed and scrapie has not been diagnosed.
Any flock under quarantine that has not had a test positive
				  confirmation for scrapie diagnosis within five years that has followed the
				  USDA-approved flock plan shall be released from quarantine. The State
				  Veterinarian may release any flock from quarantine based on epidemiological or
				  diagnostic factors.
Statutory Authority
§§ 3.2-6001, 3.2-6002 and 3.2-6004 of the Code of
					 Virginia.