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What is a 'notifiable' disease?
A notifiable disease is one that
must be reported to agricultural authorities.
If you suspect or can confirm that an animal is showing symptoms of one of the diseases listed below, you
must report it to:
- your local vet or
- your state or territory's department of primary industries or agriculture by phoning the
Emergency Animal Disease Watch Hotline on
1800 675 888.
The diseases listed below are a major threat to Australian livestock industries and our access to overseas export markets.
Background
The national list of notifiable animal diseases was agreed by the
Animal Health Committee based on the list of
Diseases Notifiable to the OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health). Endemic diseases are included for surveillance purposes to detect unusual incidents involving mortality or sickness of animals and diseases of public health significance.
State and territory lists
The requirement to report notifiable disease is contained in individual state and territory legislation.
State and territory notifiable animal disease lists contain all the diseases in the national list but
can include others specific to that state or territory.
National list of notifiable diseases of terrestrial animals at November 2015
1 African swine fever
2 Anaplasmosis in tick free areas
3 Anthrax
4 Australian bat lyssavirus
5 Avian Influenza
6 Babesiosis in tick free areas
7 Bluetongue (clinical disease)
8 Bovine virus diarrhoea Type 2
9 Brucella abortus
10 Brucella canis
11 Brucella melitensis
12 Brucella suis
13 Camel pox
14 Contagious agalactia
15 Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia
16 Contagious equine metritis
17 Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever
18 Devil Facial Tumour Disease
19 Dourine
20 Duck virus hepatitis
21 Encephalitides (tick-borne)
22 Enzootic bovine leucosis
23 Epizootic haemorrhagic disease (clinical disease)
24 Equine encephalomyelitis (Eastern, Western and Venezuelan)
25 Equine infectious anaemia
26 Equine influenza
27 Equine piroplasmosis (Babesia caballi and Theileria equi)
28 Foot-and-mouth disease
29 Glanders
30 Haemorrhagic septicaemia
31 Heartwater
32 Infection with African horse sickness virus
33 Infection with Aujeszky's disease virus
34 Infection with Borna disease virus
35 Infection with Bungowannah virus (porcine myocarditis)
36 Infection with Chlamydophila abortus (enzootic abortion of ewes, ovine chlamydiosis)
37 Infection with classical swine fever virus
38 Infection with duck herpesvirus 1 (duck viral enteritis/duck plague)
39 Infection with Echinococcus multilocularis
40 Infection with equid herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) (abortigenic and neurological strains)
41 Infection with equine arteritis virus
42 Infection with equine encephalosis virus
43 Infection with Getah virus
44 Infection with Hendra virus
45 Infection with Histoplasma farciminosum (epizootic lymphangitis)
46 Infection with Influenza A viruses in swine
47 Infection with Jembrana disease virus
48 Infection with Menangle virus
49 Infection with Mycobacterium avium (avian tuberculosis)
50 Infection with Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides SC (Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia)
51 Infection with Neorickettsia risticii (Potomac fever)
52 Infection with Newcastle disease virus (virulent)
53 Infection with peste des petits ruminants virus
54 Infection with porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus
55 Infection with Psoroptes ovis (sheep scab)
56 Infection with rabies virus
57 Infection with Rift Valley fever virus
58 Infection with rinderpest virus
59 Infection with Salmonella abortus-equi
60 Infection with Salmonella enteritidis in poultry
61 Infection with Salmonella Gallinarum (fowl typhoid)
62 Infection with swine vesicular disease virus
63 Infection with Taenia saginata (cysticercus bovis)
64 Infection with Teschovirus A (porcine enteroviral encephalomyelitis)
65 Infection with Theileria parva (East Coast fever) or T. annulata (Mediterranean theileriosis)
66 Infection with Trichinella spp.
67 Infection with Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas disease)
68 Infection with vesicular stomatitis virus
69 Infection with Wesselsbron virus
70 Infectious bursal disease (very virulent and exotic antigenic variant forms)
71 Japanese encephalitis
72 Leishmaniosis of any species
73 Louping ill
74 Lumpy skin disease
75 Maedi-visna
76 Malignant catarrhal fever (wildebeest-associated)
77 Nairobi sheep disease
78 Nipah virus infection
79 Paratuberculosis (Johne's disease)
80 Porcine cysticercosis (C. cellulosae)
81 Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome
82 Post-weaning multi-systemic wasting syndrome
83 Pullorum disease (Salmonella pullorum)
84 Pulmonary adenomatosis (Jaagsiekte)
85 Salmonellosis (abortus-ovis)
86 Screw-worm fly - New World (Cochliomyia hominivorax)
87 Screw-worm fly - Old World (Chrysomya bezziana)
88 Sheep pox and goat pox
89 Surra (Trypanosoma evansi)
90 Transmissible gastroenteritis
91 Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, chronic wasting disease of deer, feline spongiform encephalopathy, scrapie)
92 Trypanosomosis (tsetse fly associated)
93 Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis)
94 Tularaemia
95 Turkey rhinotracheitis (avian metapneumovirus)
96 Vesicular exanthema
97 Warble-fly myiasis
98 West Nile virus infection (clinical disease)
National list of notifiable diseases of bees at November 2015
1 Infection of bees with Paenibacillus larvae (American foulbrood)
2 Infection of bees with Melissococcus plutonius (European foulbrood)
3 Infestation of bees with Acarapis woodi (Acariasis tracheal mite)
4 Infestation of bees with Tropilaelaps clareae or T. mercedesae (Tropilaelaps mite)
5 Infestation of bees with Varroa destructor or V. jacobsoni (Varroosis)
For further information
contact the Animal Health Secretariat.