Belize Agricultural Health Authority (Declaration of Diseases) Order 2022 (S.I.No. 41 of 2022)

Belize Agricultural Health Authority BELIZE: BELIZE AGRICULTURAL HEALTH AUTHORITY (DECLARATION OF DISEASES) ORDER, 2022 ARRANGEMENT OF PARAGRAPHS 1. Citation. 2. Declaration of disease to be animal disease. 3. Declaration of disease to be bee disease. 4. Declaration of disease to be fish disease. 5. Repeal. No. 41] Belize Agricultural Health Authority 1 Citation. BELIZE: STATUTORY INSTRUMENT No. 41 of 2022 ORDER made by the Minister responsible for agriculture in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 2 of the Belize Agricultural Health Authority Act, Chapter 211 of the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, and all other powers thereunto him enabling. (Gazetted 5th March, 2022) 1. This Order may be cited as the BELIZE AGRICULTURAL HEALTH AUTHORITY (DECLARATION OF DISEASES) ORDER, 2022. 2. It is hereby declared that the following diseases are animal disease within the meaning of the Act– (a) disease of multiple species– (i) Anthrax; (ii) Bluetongue; (iii) Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever; (iv) Epizootic hemorrhagic disease; (v) Equine encephalomyelitis (Eastern); (vi) Heartwater; Declaration of disease to be animal disease. (vii) infection with Aujeszky’s disease virus; (viii) infection with Brucella abortus, Brucella melitensis and Brucella suis; (ix) infection with Echinococcus granulosus; (x) i n f e c t i on w i t h Ech i nococcu s multilocularis; (xi) infection with foot and mouth disease virus; (xii) infection with rabies virus; (xiii) infection with Rift Valley fever virus; (xiv) infection with rinderpest virus; (xv) infection with Trichinella spp; (xvi) Japanese encephalitis; (xvii) New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax); (xviii) Old World screwworm (Chrysomya bezziana); (xix) Paratuberculosis; (xx) Q fever; (xxi) Infection with animal trypanosomes of African origin (T. congolense, T. simiae and T. brucei); (xxii) Surra (Trypanosoma evansi); 2 Belize Agricultural Health Authority [No. 41 No. 41] Belize Agricultural Health Authority 3 (xxiii) Tularemia; and (xxiv) West Nile fever; (b) disease of cattle– (i) Bovine anaplasmosis; (ii) Bovine babesiosis; (iii) Bovine genital campylobacteriosis; (iv) Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; (v) Bovine tuberculosis; (vi) Bovine viral diarrhea; (vii) Enzootic bovine leucosis; (viii) Haemorrhagic septicaemia; (ix) infectious bovine rhinotracheitis/ infectious pustular vulvovaginitis; (x) infection with Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides SC (Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia); (xi) Lumpy skin disease; (xii) Theileriosis; (xiii) Trichomonosis; and (xiv) Trypanosomosis (tsetse-transmitted); 4 Belize Agricultural Health Authority [No. 41 (c) disease of sheep and goats– (i) Caprine arthritis/encephalitis; (ii) Contagious agalactia; (iii) Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia; (iv) infection with Chlamydophila abortus (Enzootic abortion of ewes, ovine chlamydiosis); (v) infection with peste des petits ruminants virus; (vi) Maedi-visna; (vii) Nairobi sheep disease; (viii) Ovine epididymitis (Brucella ovis); (ix) Salmonellosis (S. abortusovis); (x) Scrapie; and (xi) Sheep pox and goat pox; (d) disease of equine– (i) Contagious equine metritis; (ii) Dourine; (iii) Equine encephalomyelitis (Western); (iv) Equine infectious anaemia; (v) Equine influenza; (vi) Equine piroplasmosis; No. 41] Belize Agricultural Health Authority 5 (vii) Glanders; (viii) infection with African horse sickness virus; (ix) infection wish equid herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1); (x) infection with equine arteritis virus; and (xi) Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis; (e) disease of swine– (i) African swine fever; (ii) infection with classical swine fever virus; (iii) infection with Taenia solium (Porcine cysticercosis); (iv) Nipah virus encephalitis; (v) Porcine reproductive and respiratory Syndrome; and (vi) Transmissible gastroenteritis; (f) disease of avian species– (i) Avian chlamydiosis; (ii) Avian infectious bronchitis; (iii) Avian infectious laryngotracheitis; (iv) Avian mycoplasmosis (Mycoplasma gallisepticum); 6 Belize Agricultural Health Authority [No. 41 (v) Avian mycoplasmosis (Mycoplasma synoviae); (vi) Duck virus hepatitis; (vii) Fowl typhoid; (viii) infection with high pathogenicity avian influenza viruses; (ix) infection with influenza A viruses of high pathogenicity in birds other than poultry, including wild birds; (x) infection of domestic and captive wild birds with low pathogenicity avian influenza virus having proven natural transmission to humans associated with severe consequences; (xi) infection with Newcastle disease virus; (xii) infectious bursal disease (Gumboro disease); (xiii) Marek’s disease; (xiv) Pullorum disease; and (xv) Turkey rhinotraecheitis; (g) disease of Lagomorphs– (i) Myxomatosis; and (ii) Rabbit haemorrhagic disease; and (h) other disease– No. 41] Belize Agricultural Health Authority 7 (i) Camelpox; and (ii) Leishmaniosis. 3. It is hereby declared that the following diseases are bee disease within the meaning of the Act– (a) infection of honey bees with Melissococcus plutonius (European foulbrood); (b) infection of honey bees with Paenibacillus larvae (American foulbrood); (c) infestation of honey bees with Acarapis woodi; (d) infestation of honey bees with Tropilaelaps spp; (e) infestation of honey bees with Varroa spp. (Varroosis); and (f) infestation with Aethina tumida (Small hive beetle). 4. It is hereby declared that the following diseases are fish disease within the meaning of the Act– (a) disease of amphibians– (i) infection with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; and (ii) infection with ranavirus; (b) disease of crustaceans– (i) Acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease; (ii) Crayfish plague (Aphanomyces astaci); Declaration of disease to be fish disease. Declaration of disease to be bee disease. 2 Belize Agricultural Health Authority [No. 41 (iii) infection with yellow head virus; (iv) Infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis; (v) Infectious myonecrosis; (vi) Necrotising hepatopancreatitis; (vii) Taura syndrome; (viii) White spot disease; and (ix) White tail disease; (c) disease of fish– (i) Epizootic haematopoietic necrosis disease; (ii) infection with Aphanomyces invadans (epizootic ulcerative syndrome); (iii) infection with Gyrodactylus salaris; (iv) infection with HPR-deleted or HPR0 infectious salmon anaemia virus; (v) infection with salmonid alphavirus; (vi) Infectious haematopoietic necrosis; (vii) Koi herpesvirus disease; (viii) Red sea bream iridoviral disease; (ix) Spring viraemia of carp; and (JOSE ABELARDO MAI) Minister of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise (Minister responsible for agriculture) Printed in Belize by the Government Printer #1 Power Lane, Belmopan No. 41] Belize Agricultural Health Authority 9 (x) Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia; and (d) disease of molluscs– (i) infection with abalone herpesvirus; (ii) infection with Bonamia ostreae; (iii) infection with Bonamia exitiosa; (iv) infection with Marteilia refringens; (v) infection with Perkinsus marinus; (vi) infection with Perkinsus olseni; and (vii) infection with Xenohaliotis californiensis. 5. The Belize Agricultural Health Authority (Declaration of Diseases) Order, 2021 is repealed. MADE by the Minister responsible for agriculture this 28th day of February, 2022. Repeal. S.I. 124 of 2021.