Biosecurity in the United States
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This is a list of biosecurity threats to the United States.
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Agents of concern
The following agents are deemed a biosecurity concern by the US Government through the Select agent list. The list is divided between agents that can infect only humans, zoonotic agents (which can infect both humans and animals), agents that can only infect animals, and agents that can infect only plants.
Human agents
(HHS SELECT AGENTS AND TOXINS)
- Abrin
- Cercopithecine herpesvirus 1 (Herpes B Virus)
- Coccidioides posadasii
- Conotoxins
- Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus
- Diacetoxyscirpenol
- Ebola virus
- Lassa fever virus
- Marburg virus
- Monkeypox virus
- Reconstructed replication competent forms of the 1918 pandemic influenza virus containing any portion of the coding regions of all eight gene segments (Reconstructed 1918 Influenza virus)
- Ricin
- Rickettsia prowazekii
- Rickettsia rickettsii
- Saxitoxin
- Shiga-like ribosome inactivating proteins
- South American Haemorrhagic Fever viruses
- Flexal Virus
- Guanarito virus
- Junin virus
- Machupo
- Sabia
- Tetrodotoxin
- Tick-borne encephalitis complex (flavi) viruses
- Variola major virus (Smallpox virus) and
- Variola minor virus (Alastrim)
- Yersinia pestis
Zoonotic agents
(OVERLAP SELECT AGENTS AND TOXINS)
- Bacillus anthracis
- Botulinum neurotoxin
- Botulinum neurotoxin producing species of Clostridium
- Brucella abortus
- Brucella melitensis
- Brucella suis
- Burkholderia mallei (formerly Pseudomonas mallei)
- Burkholderia pseudomallei (formerly Pseudomonas pseudomallei)
- Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin
- Coccidioides immitis
- Coxiella burnetii
- Eastern equine encephalitis virus
- Francisella tularensis
- Hendra virus
- Nipah virus
- Rift Valley fever virus
- Shiga toxin
- Staphylococcal enterotoxins
- T-2 toxin
- Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus
Animal agents
(USDA SELECT AGENTS AND TOXINS)
- African horse sickness virus
- African swine fever virus
- Akabane virus
- Avian influenza virus (highly pathogenic)
- Bluetongue virus (Exotic)
- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
- Camel pox virus
- Classical swine fever virus
- Cowdria ruminantium (Heartwater)
- Foot-and-mouth disease virus
- Goat pox virus
- Japanese encephalitis virus
- Lumpy skin disease virus
- Malignant catarrhal fever virus (Alcelaphine herpesvirus type 1)
- Menangle virus
- Mycoplasma capricolum/ M.F38/M. mycoides Capri (contagious caprine pleuropneumonia)
- Mycoplasma mycoides mycoides (contagious bovine pleuropneumonia)
- Newcastle disease virus (velogenic)
- Peste des petits ruminants virus
- Rinderpest virus
- Sheep pox virus
- Swine vesicular disease virus
- Vesicular stomatitis virus (Exotic)
Plant agents
(USDA PLANT PROTECTION AND QUARANTINE (PPQ) SELECT AGENTS AND TOXINS)
- Candidatus Liberobacter africanus
- Candidatus Liberobacter asiaticus
- Peronosclerospora philippinensis
- Ralstonia solanacearum race 3, biovar. 2
- Sclerophthora rayssiae var. zeae
- Synchytrium endobioticum
- Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola
- Xylella fastidiosa (citrus variegated chlorosis strain)
See also
References
External links
- Biosecurity in Agriculture at the EPA
- Biosecurity Engagement Program - US Department of State
- Biosafety and Biosecurity - Training Course, Fort Collins, CO
