GB/T 22330.6-2024Standard for specified animal disease free zone - Part 6: African horse sickness free zone (English PDF)

Foreword

This document is in accordance with the provisions of GB/T 1.1-2020 "Guidelines for standardization work Part

1.Structure and drafting rules for standardization documents" Drafting. This document is part 6 of GB/T 22330 "Standard for Areas Free of Specified Animal Diseases". GB/T 22330 has been published in the following parts.

2.Foot-and-mouth disease-free areas;

3.Areas free of swine blister disease;

4.Areas free of classical swine fever (swine fever);

5.African swine fever-free areas;

6.African horse sickness-free areas;

7.Rinderpest-free areas;

8.Areas free from contagious bovine pleuropneumonia;

--- Part 9: BSE-free areas;

10.Blue tongue free areas;

11.Small ruminant pest free areas;

12.Sheep pox and goat pox (sheep pox) free areas;

13.Areas free of highly pathogenic avian influenza;

1 Scope

GB/T 22330.6-2024 is the Chinese national standard on standard for specified animal disease free zone - part 6: african horse sickness free zone, in the field of health care technology. The /T suffix marks it as a recommended standard: it is not compulsory by itself, but it becomes binding as soon as a contract, a tender or a customer specification calls it up - which in practice is how most foreign buyers meet it. It was issued on 28 November 2024 by the State Administration for Market Regulation; Standardization Administration of China, and has been in force since 1 June 2025. Classification: ICS 11.220, CCS B41. This page is published from the official record of the standard held by the Chinese standards administration: the identification, the dates, the classification and the issuing body are taken from there. The clause text, the tables and the numeric limits are in the document itself, which is delivered complete in English translation.

This document specifies the infection conditions and infection period of African horse sickness virus, basic requirements for African horse sickness-free areas, introduction requirements, monitoring requirements, and And the conditions for establishing infection control areas when a limited epidemic occurs and the conditions for restoring areas free of African horse sickness. This document applies to the establishment and restoration of African horse sickness-free areas.

2 Normative references

The contents of the following documents constitute the essential clauses of this document through normative references in this text, among which the dated references For referenced documents without a date, only the version corresponding to that date applies to this document; for referenced documents without a date, the latest version (including all amendments) applies to this document. document.

GB/T 21675 African horse sickness diagnostic technology

GB/T 22330.1 Standard for areas free from specified animal diseases Part

3 Terms and definitions

The terms and definitions defined in GB/T 22330.1 apply to this document.

4 African horse sickness virus infection

Any of the following situations is considered to be an infection with African horse sickness virus.

a) Isolation and identification of African horse sickness virus from equine samples;

b) From samples of equine animals showing clinical signs of African horse sickness or with epidemiological links to confirmed or suspected outbreaks of African horse sickness Detection of African horse sickness virus antigen or nucleic acid;

c) From a patient who has not been infected with African horse sickness and has clinical symptoms of African horse sickness or has an epidemiological link with a confirmed or suspected outbreak of African horse sickness Antibodies to African horse sickness virus were detected in samples from equine animals vaccinated with the vaccine.

5 Infectious period

The infectious period of African horse sickness is 40 days.

6 Basic Requirements

6.1 Comply with the basic conditions for establishing areas free from prescribed animal diseases in GB/T 22330.1.

6.2 No equine animals have been vaccinated against African horse sickness in the region in the past 12 months.

6.3 The sanitary conditions of African horse sickness shall meet any of the following conditions.

a) There has been no African horse sickness in the construction area in history;