2022 Zoonoses Animal & Feed Report

21 December, 2023

Zoonoses in animals

Brucella in animals

Sampling Strategy	Sample Stage	Animal	Total no. of animals tested	Samples Positive	% Positive
Objective sampling	Official	Alpaca	2	0	0
		Bovine	1216	0	0
		Equine	1	0	0
		Monkey	1	0	0
		Ovine	5	0	0
		Red panda	1	0	0

Campylobacter in animals

Sampling Strategy	Sample Stage	Animal	Total no. of animals tested	Samples Positive	% Positive
Objective sampling	Official	Alpacas lamas	1	0	0.0
		Calves under 1 year	1703	95	5.6
		Capuchins	1	0	0.0
		Corsac fox	3	0	0.0
		Dairy cows	25	1	4.0
		Dogs	13	0	0.0
		Equine	5	0	0.0
		Ferret	1	0	0.0
		Goats	10	0	0.0
		Meerkats	3	0	0.0
		Otters	1	0	0.0
		Pigs	33	0	0.0
		Racoon	2	0	0.0
		Sheep	575	29	5.0

Coxiella in animals

Sampling Strategy	Sample Stage	Animal	Total no. of animals tested	Samples Positive	% Positive
Objective sampling	Official	Bovine	521	15	2.9
		Calves	120	4	3.3
		Cervine	1	0	0.0
		Dairy cows	8	0	0.0
		Equine	1	0	0.0
		Exotic	1	0	0.0
		Goats	3	0	0.0
		Sheep	183	2	1.1

Listeria monocytogenes in animals

Sampling Strategy	Sample Stage	Animal	Total no. of animals tested	Samples Positive	% Positive
Objective sampling	Official	Broiler breeder	73	3	4.1
		Cattle	3327	27	0.8
		Goats	48	2	4.2
		Sheep	1606	9	0.6

Mycobacterium in animals

Sampling Strategy	Sample Stage	Animal	Total no. of animals tested	Samples Positive	% Positive
Objective sampling	Official	Alpaca	12	10	83.3
		Badgers	869	395	45.5
		Birds	5	1	20.0
		Coatimundi	3	2	66.7
		Deer	60	25	41.7
		Dog	1	0	0.0
		Goats	2	0	0.0
		Lion-tailed macaque	1	0	0.0
		Pigs	14	2	14.3

Salmonella in animals

Sampling Strategy	Sample Stage	Animal	Total no. of animals tested	Samples Positive	% Positive
Census	Industry	Broiler breeder flocks	139	1	0.7
		Broilers before slaughter	3295	13	0.4
		Laying hens	465	0	0.0
		Turkey breeders	4	0	0.0
		Turkey fatteners	455	14	3.1
	Official	Broiler breeder flocks	139	0	0.0
		Laying hens	346	1	0.3
		Turkey breeders	4	0	0.0
	Official and industry	Broiler breeder flocks	139	1	0.7
		Broilers before slaughter	3295	13	0.4
		Laying hens	465	1	0.2
		Turkey breeders	4	0	0.0
		Turkey fatteners	455	18	4.0
Objective	Official	Broilers before slaughter	99	1	1.0
		Turkey fatteners	22	4	18.2
Objective sampling		Aborted calves	1257	60	4.8
		Adult cattle over 2 years	242	0	0.0
		Badgers	1	0	0.0
		Broiler	27	0	0.0
		Calves under 1 year	1238	8	0.6
		Cats	1	0	0.0
		Cervine	3	0	0.0
		Dogs	2	0	0.0
		Ducks	8	0	0.0
		Equine	7	1	14.3
		Exotic(unspecified)	7	1	14.3
		Goats	36	0	0.0
		Goose	1	0	0.0
		Mute swan	1	0	0.0
		Partridges	1	0	0.0
		Pheasants	2	0	0.0
		Pigs	367	28	7.6
		Sheep	1328	14	1.1

   

Toxoplasma in animals

Sampling Strategy	Sample Stage	Animal	Total no. of animals tested	Samples Positive	% Positive
Objective sampling	Official	Bovine	5	0	0.0
			3	0	0.0
		Exotic(unspecified)	3	1	33.3
			4	1	25.0
Suspect sampling		Goats	4	1	25.0
			5	1	20.0
		Sheep	318	72	22.6
			149	72	48.3

Trichinella in animals

Animal	Tested	Positive	% Positive
Breeding pigs	100	0	0
Breeding pigs - boars	697	0	0
Breeding pigs - sows	90392	0	0
Fattening pigs	3545265	0	0
Horses	1606	0	0

Yersinia in animals

Sampling Strategy	Sample Stage	Animal	Total no. of animals tested	Samples Positive	% Positive
Objective sampling	Official	Adult cattle over 2 years	1144	3	0.3
			758	3	0.4
			461	3	0.7
			8	3	37.5
			814	3	0.4
			142	3	2.1
		Backyard hen	4	0	0.0
			1	0	0.0
			23	0	0.0
		Barn owl wild	1	0	0.0
		Bird domestic rooster	4	0	0.0
			1	0	0.0
		Broiler	1	0	0.0
			10	0	0.0
			38	0	0.0
		Broiler breeder	4	0	0.0
			20	0	0.0
			49	0	0.0
		Cats pet	2	0	0.0
		Dogs pet	5	0	0.0
		Duck unsp	9	0	0.0
		Goats	8	0	0.0
			16	0	0.0
			1	0	0.0
			11	0	0.0
			7	0	0.0
			5	0	0.0
		Goose	2	0	0.0
			5	0	0.0
		Gyr falcon wild	5	0	0.0
		Hen	14	0	0.0
			10	0	0.0
			26	0	0.0
			1	0	0.0
		Kittiwake wild	1	0	0.0
			10	0	0.0
		Layer breeder	7	0	0.0
		Mallard wild	1	0	0.0
		Partridge wild	1	0	0.0
		Pheasants wild	3	0	0.0
			6	0	0.0
		Pigeon wild	1	0	0.0
		Pigs fattenings	18	0	0.0
			200	0	0.0
			2	0	0.0
			97	0	0.0
			10	0	0.0
		Sheep	162	0	0.0
			235	0	0.0
			4	0	0.0
			753	0	0.0
			66	0	0.0
			382	0	0.0
		Swan wild	1	0	0.0
		Table egg layer	8	0	0.0
			14	0	0.0
			31	0	0.0
		Turkey	3	0	0.0
			11	0	0.0
		Turkey fattening	4	0	0.0
		White-tailed  eagle wild	1	0	0.0

   

Zoonoses in feedstuffs

Salmonella in animal feed materials

Type of feed material	Tested	Positive	% Positive
Feed-other seeds and fruits, at feed mill, surveillance	1	0	0.0
Feed - other plants - at feed mill	10	0	0.0
Feed material for land animals	86	0	0.0
Feed material of cereal grain origin	107	1	0.9
Feed material of land animal origin	5	0	0.0
Feed material of marine animal origin	8	0	0.0
Feed material of oil seed or fruit origin	70	1	1.4
Other feed material	10	0	0.0
Pet food - final product	1	0	0.0