Animal Disease and Animal Care

FY2025 An APHIS cooperative agreement enhanced animal emergency response coordination. In FY 2025, APHIS cooperative agreement provided outreach, including on HPAI, to more than 680 exotic animal stakeholders, including zoos, aquariums, wildlife parks, sanctuaries, rehabilitation facilities, service centers, professional associations, hobbyist groups, private owners, private veterinary practitioners and other governmental emergency management agencies.
*Continued to enforce an African swine fever (ASF) protection zone in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to prevent the disease from spreading to these locations or the U.S. mainland and assisted the Dominican Republic and Haiti in their ASF eradication programs to help contain the disease
*Monitored U.S. livestock health, including testing 23,783 samples for ASF and/or classical swine fever (with all results negative), and conducting 3,515 foreign animal disease investigations, of which 1,464 involved investigations of vesicular diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease and 1,322 involved poultry diseases
*Invested $16.9 million in the National Animal Vaccine and Veterinary Countermeasures Bank
*Licensed 86 manufacturers and permit holders for 1,448 active product licenses/permits for the control of 278 animal diseases
*Initiated an emergency program to address nationwide detections of highly pathogenic avian influenza
*Endorsed 329,344 health certificates to facilitate safe animal and animal product exports and approved 2,663 facilities to export U.S. animal products

FY2026 Emergency Preparedness & Response in the fields of Contingency planning, Exotic Animals, Animal Welfare Act.