Page 18 - Federal Law No. (14) of 2014 Concerning the Prevention of Communicable Diseases

Table 3
Disease that are Transmittable from Animal to Human being and should be Reported
Zoonoses

Name of the Disease Pathogen
Anthrax Bacillus anthracis
Brucellosis Brucellaabortus,
brucellamelitensi,
Brucellasuis, brucellacanis,
brucellamaris
Leptospirosis Leptospirabovis

Bovine Tuberculosis Mycobacterium bovis
Paratuberculosis Mycobacterium avium
subspecies paratuberculosis
Tularemia Francisellatularensis
Glanders Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) mallei
Crimean Congo The Bunyaviridae family of RNA viruses
haemorrhagic fever
Equine Western, eastern & Venezuelan equine
encephalomyelitis (western, eastern, encephalitis virus
Venezuelan) Apthovirus of family Picornaviridae
Foot and mouth disease
Japanese encephalitis Japanese encephalitis virus belong the family
Flaviviridae
Vesicular stomatitis The family Rhabdoviridae
Rabies Family Rhabdoviridae, genus Lyssavirus

Rift Valley fever Family Bunyaviridae within the genus
Phlebovirus

West Nile Fever The family Flaviviridae
Avian influenza Family Orthomyxoviridae and placed in the
genus influonza virus A
Bovine Babesiosis Babesiabovis, Babesiadivergens
Q fever (Query fever) CoxiellaBumetii

New world screwworm Cochliomyiahominivorax
Old world screwworm Chrysomyabezziana
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy Prion

*In case of any misinterpretation, the Arabic version of this legislation prevails.