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National list of notifiable animal diseases

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.

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.

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.

Multiple species diseases, infections and infestations

  • Bluetongue (clinical disease)
  • Encephalitides (tick borne)
  • Epizootic haemorrhagic disease (clinical disease)
  • Infection with Australian bat lyssavirus
  • Infection with Bacillus anthracis (Anthrax)
  • Infection with Borna disease virus
  • Infection with Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus
  • Infection with Echinococcus multilocularis
  • Infection with Ehrlichia ruminantium (Heartwater)
  • Infection with foot and mouth disease virus
  • Infection with Francisella tularensis (Tularaemia)
  • Infection with Japanese encephalitis virus
  • Infection with Leishmania spp.
  • Infection with Mycobacterium bovis
  • Infection with Mycobacterium caprae
  • Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  • Infection with alcelaphine herpesvirus-1 (malignant catarrhal fever, wildebeest-associated)
  • Infection with rabies virus
  • Infection with Rift Valley fever virus
  • Infection with rinderpest virus
  • Infection with Trichinella spp.
  • Infection with Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas disease)
  • Infection with Trypanosoma evansi (Surra)
  • Infection with vesicular stomatitis virus
  • Infestation with Chrysomya bezziana (Old World Screwworm)
  • Infestation with Cochliomyia hominivorax (New World screwworm)
  • Infestation with Warble-fly (warble-fly myiasis)
  • Paratuberculosis (Johne’s disease)
  • Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, chronic wasting disease of deer, feline spongiform encephalopathy, scrapie)
  • Trypanosomosis (tsetse fly associated)
  • West Nile Virus (clinical disease)

Cattle diseases, infections and infestations

  • Haemorrhagic septicaemia (Infection with Pasteurella multocida serotypes 6:b and 6:e)
  • Infection with Anaplasma marginale (bovine anaplasmosis) in tick free areas
  • Infection with Babesia bovis, B. bigemina or B. divergens (bovine babesiosis) in tick free areas
  • Infection with bovine leukaemia virus (enzootic bovine leucosis)
  • Infection with bovine virus diarrhoea virus (type 2)
  • Infection with Brucella abortus
  • Infection with Jembrana disease virus
  • Infection with louping ill virus
  • Infection with lumpy skin disease virus
  • Infection with Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides SC (contagious bovine pleuropneumonia)
  • Infection with Theileria parva (East Coast fever) or T.annulata (Mediterranean theileriosis)
  • Infestation with Taenia saginata (cysticercus bovis)

Sheep and goat diseases, infections and infestations

  • Contagious agalactia (clinical disease)
  • Infection with Brucella melitenisis
  • Infection with Chlamydophila abortus (enzootic abortion of ewes, ovine chlamydiosis)
  • Infection with Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae (contagious caprine pleuropneumonia)
  • Infection with Nairobi sheep disease virus
  • Infection with peste des petits ruminants virus
  • Infestation with Psoroptes ovis (sheep scab)
  • Infection with Salmonella abortus-ovis (salmonellosis)
  • Infection with sheep pox virus or goat pox virus
  • Infection with Wesselbron virus
  • Maedi-visna
  • Pulmonary adenomatosis (Jaagsiekte)

Equine diseases and infections

  • Infection with African horse sickness virus
  • Infection with Babesia caballi B. equi, or Theileria equi (Equine piroplasmosis)
  • Infection with Burkholderia mallei (Glanders)
  • Infection with Eastern, Western or Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis viruses
  • Infection with equine arteritis virus
  • Infection with equine encephalosis virus
  • Infection with equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1)
  • Infection with equine infectious anaemia virus
  • Infection with equine influenza virus
  • Infection with Getah virus
  • Infection with Hendra virus
  • Infection with Histoplasma farciminosum (epizootic lymphangitis)
  • Infection with Neorickettsia risticii (Potomac fever)
  • Infection with Salmonella abortus-equi
  • Infection with Taylorella equigenitalis (contagious equine metritis)
  • Infection with Trypanosoma equiperdum (dourine)

Swine diseases and infections

  • Infection with African swine fever virus
  • Infection with Aujeszky’s disease virus (pseudorabies virus)
  • Infection with Brucella suis
  • Infection with Bungowannah virus (porcine myocarditis virus or atypical porcine pestivirus)
  • Infection with classical swine fever virus
  • Infection with Influenza A viruses in swine
  • Infection with Menangle virus
  • Infection with Nipah virus
  • Infection with porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus
  • Infection with porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus
  • Infection with Seneca Valley virus (Senecavirus A)
  • Infection with swine vesicular disease virus
  • Infection with Taenia solium (Porcine cysticercosis)
  • Infection with Teschovirus A (porcine enteroviral encephalomyelitis)
  • Infection with transmissible gastroenteritis coronavirus
  • Infection with vesicular exanthema of swine virus
  • Post-weaning multi-systemic wasting syndrome

Avian diseases and infections

  • Duck virus hepatitis
  • Infection with Influenza A viruses in birds
  • Infection with avian metapneumovirus (Turkey rhinotracheitis)
  • Infection with duck herpesvirus 1 (duck viral enteritis/duck plague)
  • Infection with Mycobacterium avium (avian tuberculosis) in birds
  • Infection with Mycoplasma iowae
  • Infection with infectious bursal disease virus (very virulent and exotic antigenic variant forms)
  • Infection with Newcastle disease virus (virulent)
  • Infection with Salmonella Enteritidis in poultry
  • Infection with Salmonella Gallinarum (fowl typhoid)
  • Infection with Salmonella Pullorum (Pullorum disease)

Other diseases and infections

  • Devil Facial Tumour Disease
  • Infection with Brucella canis
  • Infection with Camelpox virus
  • Infection with Ehrlichia canis (Ehrlichiosis)
  • Infection with Pseudogymnoascus destructans in bats (White Nose Syndrome)

  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.

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