Animal Health Division’s mission is to prevent, suppress, control, and if possible, eradicate high-consequence communicable diseases of livestock and poultry as authorized by West Virginia Code and Legislative Rule. The Division encompasses: traditional field services for surveillance and response actions; two animal disease diagnostic laboratories; meat and poultry inspection bureau; livestock grading & livestock market reporting; veterinary biologics requests; state veterinarian’s office processes - intrastate, interstate, regionally, and nationally; apiary unit; WV spay & neuter grant deliveries; cooperative programs with USDA-APHIS for Animal Disease Traceability, Scrapie Eradication, Swine Health Improvement, National Poultry Improvement Plan, and Captive Cervids (deer breeding farms and hunting preserves); and delegation for conducting WV Dangerous Wild Animal Board functions. The division’s work over the decades, alongside cooperating interagency partners and animal industry stakeholders, has resulted in West Virginia having disease-free status for many consequential diseases and pests of poultry and livestock, plus some diseases that are also significant to wildlife, companion animals, and people.