TABLE 1: CATEGORY A INFECTIOUS SUBSTANCES
UN Number & Proper Shipping Name |
Organism Name |
UN 2814: Infectious substances, affecting humans |
Bacillus anthracis (cultures only) |
| Brucella abortus (cultures only) | |
| Brucella melitensis (cultures only) | |
| Brucella suis (cultures only) | |
| Burkholderia mallei -Pseudomonas mallei -Glanders (cultures only) | |
| Burkholderia pseudomallei - Pseudomonas pseudomallei (cultures only) | |
| Chlamydia psittaci - avian strains (cultures only) | |
| Clostridium botulinum (cultures only) | |
| Coccidioides immitis (cultures only) | |
| Coxiella burnetii (cultures only) | |
| Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus | |
| Dengue virus (cultures only) | |
| Eastern equine encephalitis virus (cultures only) | |
| Escherichia coli, verotoxigenic (cultures only) | |
| Ebola virus | |
| Flexal virus | |
| Francisella tularensis (cultures only) | |
| Guanarito virus | |
| Hantaan virus | |
| Hantaviruses causing hantavirus pulmonary syndrome | |
| Hendra virus | |
| Hepatitis B virus (cultures only) | |
| Herpes B virus (cultures only) | |
| Human immunodeficiency virus (cultures only) | |
| Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (cultures only) | |
| Japanese Encephalitis virus (cultures only) | |
| Junin virus | |
| Kyasanur Forest disease virus | |
| Lassa virus | |
| Machupo virus | |
| Marburg virus | |
| Monkeypox virus | |
| Mycobacterium tuberculosis (cultures only) | |
| Nipah virus | |
| Omsk hemorrhagic fever virus | |
| Poliovirus (cultures only) | |
| Rabies virus | |
| Rickettsia prowazekii (cultures only) | |
| Rickettsia rickettsii (cultures only) | |
| Rift Valley fever virus | |
| Russian spring-summer encephalitis virus (cultures only) | |
| Sabia virus | |
| Shigella dysenteriae type 1 (cultures only) | |
| Tick-borne encephalitis virus (cultures only) | |
| Variola virus | |
| Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus | |
| West Nile virus (cultures only) | |
| Yellow fever virus (cultures only) | |
| Yersinia pestis (cultures only) | |
| UN 2900: Infectious substances, affecting animals | African horse sickness virus |
| [These substances affect animals only] | African swine fever virus |
| Avian paramyxovirus Type 1 - Newcastle disease virus | |
| Bluetongue virus | |
| Classical swine fever virus | |
| Foot and mouth disease virus | |
| Lumpy skin disease virus | |
| Mycoplasma mycoides - Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia | |
| Peste des petits ruminants virus | |
| Rinderpest virus | |
| Sheep-pox virus | |
| Goatpox virus | |
| Swine vesicular disease virus | |
| Vesicular stomatitis virus |
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