Amendment of “Guideline for Specific Domestic Animal Infectious Diseases Control Concerning Hightly Pathogenic Avian Influenza and Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza”

Abstract

“Guidelines for specific domestic animal infectious diseases control”, stipulated in the Act on Domestic Animal Infectious Diseases Control, prescribes the control measures for prevention and containment of major domestic animal infectious diseases. As of December 2015, the guidelines for Rinderpest, Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, Foot-and-mouth disease, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Classical swine fever, African swine fever and Highly pathogenic avian influenza and low pathogenic avian influenza (7 guidelines in total) are issued. Among these, the guideline for Highly pathogenic avian influenza and low pathogenic avian influenza was amended in September 2015, and this article gives an overview of the amendment.