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Appendix H: HHS and USDA Select Agents and Toxins
Pages 255-258

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... Rift Valley fever virus Lassa fever virus Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus3 Lujo virus Marburg virus* USDA SELECT AGENTS AND TOXINS Monkeypox virus3 African horse sickness virus Reconstructed replication competent forms of the African swine fever virus 1918 pandemic influenza virus containing any portion of the coding regions of all eight gene segments (Reconstructed 1918 Influenza virus)
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... A failure to detect a cleavage site that is consistent with virulent strains does not confirm the absence of a virulent virus. 3 Select agents that meet any of the following criteria are excluded from the requirements of this part: Any low pathogenic strains of avian influenza virus, South American genotype of eastern equine encephalitis virus , west African clade of Monkeypox viruses, any strain of Newcastle disease virus which does not meet the criteria for virulent Newcastle disease virus, all subspecies Mycoplasma capricolum except subspecies capripneumoniae (contagious
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... (contagious bovine pleuropneumonia) , and any subtypes of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus except for Subtypes IAB or IC, provided that the individual or entity can verify that the agent is within the exclusion category.
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  • newcastle disease
  • equine encephalitis
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  • south american
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  • avian influenza
  • subspecies mycoplasma
  • eastern equine
  • except subspecies

  • haemorrhagic fever
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  • botulinum neurotoxin
  • west african

  • virus lassa
  • bovine pleuropneumonia
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  • brucella abortus
  • paralytic alpha

  • bacillus anthracis
  • neurotoxin producing
  • peronosclerospora philippinensis
  • african horse
  • coding regions


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