UCSD
CAMPUS NOTICE
University of California, San Diego
 

OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH AND SAFETY

August 21, 2002


ALL ACADEMICS AND STAFF AT UCSD (including UCSD Healthcare)

SUBJECT:  Reporting of Infectious and Toxic Materials

A new law on bioterrorism preparedness requires all institutions in possession of any infectious agent or biological toxin included on the list below to notify Federal regulators. UCSD, along with all other research institutions nationwide, has been given a very short time to collect information and submit a report to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Please respond to this notice by Tuesday, September 3, 2002, if you have any of the material listed below in your possession.

To respond, please contact Steve Kowalewsky at (858) 534-6715 or by e-mail at skowalewsky@ucsd.edu.

All materials specified must be reported if they are viable, non-viable (including vaccine strains), segments of viral nucleic acid that exceed 100 nucleotides in length, and/or are natural or synthetic nucleic acids that encode for functional toxins or virulence factors.

This reporting is in response to the Federal law enacted by congress in June 2002 (Public Law 107-188: "Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002"). At a later date, the law will require a much more detailed report, and Federal agencies may mandate a thorough inventory of infectious agents and biological toxins.

Researchers in possession of material listed below will be subject to a background check to be conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice.

If you have questions regarding this request, please contact Steve Kowalewsky at (858) 534-6715 or by e-mail at skowalewsky@ucsd.edu.

Thank you.


                                                Steve Benedict
                                                Director
                                                Environment, Health and Safety

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AGENTS

Abrin
Aflatoxins
African Horse Sickness Virus
African Swine Fever
Akabane Virus
Avian Influenza Virus (Highly Pathogenic)
Bacillus anthracis
Blue Tongue Virus (Exotic)
Botulinum Toxins
Bovine Spongiform Encepalopathy Agent
Brucella abortus
Brucella melitensis
Brucella suis
Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) pseudomallei
Burxholoeria (Pseuoomonas) mallei
Camel Pox Virus
Classical Swine Fever
Clostridium botulinum
Clostridium perfringens Epsilon Toxin
Coccidioides immitis
Conotixins
Cowdria Ruminantium (Heartwater)
Coxiella burnettii
Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus
Diacetoxyscirpenol
Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus
Ebola Viruses
Equine Morbillivirus (Hendra Virus)/Nipah Virus
Foot and Mouth Disease Virus
Francisella tularensis
Goat Pox Virus
Japanese Encephalitis Virus
Lassa fever virus
Lumpy Skin Disease Virus
Malignant Catarrhal Fever
Marburg Virus
Menangle Virus
Mycoplasma Capricolum/m. Ycoides Capri (Contagious Caprine
Pleuropneumonia Agent)
Mycoplasma Mycoides Mycoides (Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia Agent)
Newcastle Disease Virus (Exotic)
Peste Des Petits Ruminants
Ricin
Ricksttsia prowazekii
Rickettsia rickettsii
Rift Valley Fever Virus
Rinderpest Virus
Saxitoxin
Sheep Pox
Shigatoxin
South American Haemorrihagic Fever Viruses
Staphylococcal enterotoxin
Swine Vesicular Disease Virus
T-2 Toxin
Tetrodotoxin
Tick-borne Encephalitis Complex Viruses
Variola major Virus (Smallpox Virus)
Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus
Vesicular Stomatitis Virus
Viruses Causing Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
Yellow Fever Virus
Yersinia pestis