Zoonotic Disease Program

H5N1 is a virus that causes what is known as the "bird flu"

Orientacion Sobre El Virus H5N1 Para Los Trabajadores Agricolas

This plan should be adapted to your practice in keeping with local, state, and federal regulations. Please refer to the full Compendium of Veterinary Standard Precautions for complete information and guidance.

The objectives of the Compendium are to raise awareness of the scope of zoonotic disease risk in veterinary medicine; address infection control issues specific to veterinary practice; provide practical, science-based veterinary infection control guidance; and provide a model infection control plan for use in individual veterinary facilities.

Rabies is a fatal viral zoonosis and a serious public health problem. All mammals are believed to be susceptible to the disease, and for purposes of this document, use of the term “animal” refers to mammals. The disease is an acute, progressive encephalitis caused by a lyssavirus.

Zika Care Connect aims to improve access to specialty healthcare services for the management of Zika virus infection during pregnancy and outcomes in infants caused by Zika. The program targets the most important and removable barriers to care, as identified by maternal and pediatric care experts. We focus on women infected with Zika during pregnancy, as well as infants born to mothers with laboratory evidence of Zika.

This compendium provides standardized recommendations for public health officials, veterinarians, animal venue operators, animal exhibitors, visitors to animal venues and exhibits, and others concerned with control of disease and with minimizing health risks associated with animal contact in public settings.

This document provides a wealth of information about Hantavirus for New Mexico physicians and healthcare workers including clinical recognition, presumptive laboratory recognition, presumptive clinical and laboratory recognition, immediate consultation and referral, rapid diagnostic testing, and more.

This fact sheet answers frequently asked questions about Hantavirus including what it is, what the symptoms are, how it spreads, how long people are contagious, what treatments are available, and how to protect yourself from the virus.

Hantavirus Preguntas más Frecuentes

Controlling rodents in buildings is very important from the perspectives of both their potential effects on human health and their possible damage to physical structures. Rodent control can be an attainable goal, but it always demands more than randomly setting out a few traps.

This plan incorporates guidance from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency. It also builds on lessons learned from planned events, disasters, emergencies, trainings, and exercises.

The 2016 Rabies Compendium by the National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians explains national animal rabies prevention and control best practices.

Introduction Letter

Veterinarians and animal control officers may refer to the Guidance on Prospective Serologic Monitoring for further information on dogs and cats with a rabies exposure but uncertain rabies vaccination history.

This brochure provides important facts about the Zika virus.

Folleto del Virus Zika

Use this form to report cases of West Nile virus to the New Mexico Department of Health.

This fact sheet explains what West Nile Virus is, what the symptoms are, how the infection is spread, how long people are contagious for, what treatments are available, how you can protect yourself and your family, and more.

Virus del Nilo Occidental Hoja Informativa

This list of frequently asked questions explains about the virus, how people get infected, how it is transmitted, symptoms, treatment, and what to do if you get bitten by a mosquito.

Virus del Nilo Occidental Preguntas Más Frecuentes

This document answers common questions including what plague is, what symptoms are, how it spreads, how long people are contagious, what treatments are available, and more.

Preguntas más Frecuentes Sobre la Peste

The mosquito-borne viral encephalitides (arboviral diseases) are a group of acute central nervous system illnesses. The diseases of this group that occur in New Mexico are western equine encephalitis, St. Louis encephalitis, and West Nile virus.

Provides a wealth of information about plague for New Mexico physicians and healthcare workers including agent, mode of transmission, period of communicability, incubation period, common symptoms, specific forms of plague, laboratory diagnosis, treatment, surveillance, and reporting.