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National List of Notifiable Animal Diseases
What is a 'notifiable' disease?
A notifiable disease is one that must be immediately 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
- the Department of Primary Industries or Agriculture in your state or territory. You can do this in one simple step 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.
State and Territory Lists
The requirement to report notifiable disease is contained in individual state and territory legislation.
State and territory notifiable disease lists contain all the diseases in the national list but can include others specific to that state or territory.
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.
National Notifiable Animal Disease List as at April 2008
- African horse sickness
- African swine fever
- Anaplasmosis in tick free areas
- Anthrax
- Aujeszky's disease
- Australian bat lyssavirus
- Avian Influenza
- Avian mycoplasmosis (M. synoviae)
- Babesiosis in tick free areas
- Bluetongue (clinical disease)
- Borna disease
- Bovine Virus DiarrhaeaType 2
- Brucellosis (B.abortus, B suis, B canis and B. melitensis)
- Camelpox
- Chagas’ disease (T cruzi)
- Classical swine fever
- Contagious agalactia
- Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia
- Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia
- Contagious equine metritis
- Crimean Congo Haemhorragic Fever
- Devil Facial Tumour Disease
- Dourine
- Duck virus enteritis (duck plague)
- Duck virus hepatitis
- East Coast fever
- Encephalitides (tick-borne)
- Porcine enterovirus encephalomyelitis (Teschen)
- Enzootic bovine leucosis
- Epizootic lymphangitis
- Equine encephalomyelitis (eastern, western and Venezuelan)
- Equine encephalosis
- Equine herpes-virus 1 (abortigenic and neurological strains)
- Equine infectious anaemia
- Equine influenza
- Equine piroplasmosis (Babesia equi, Babesia caballi and Theileria equi)
- Equine viral arteritis
- Foot and mouth disease
- Getah virus infection
- Glanders
- Haemorrhagic septicaemia
- Heartwater
- Hendra virus infection
- Infectious bursal disease (hypervirulent and exotic antigenic variant forms)
- Japanese encephalitis
- Jembrana disease
- Leishmaniosis of any species
- Louping ill
- Lumpy skin disease
- Maedi-visna
- Malignant catarrhal fever (wildebeest-associated)
- Menangle virus infection
- Nairobi sheep disease
- Newcastle disease (virulent)
- Nipah virus infection
- Paratuberculosis (Johne's disease)
- Peste des petits ruminants
- Porcine cysticercosis (C. cellulosae)
- Porcine myocarditis (Bungowannah virus infection)
- Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome
- Post-weaning multi-systemic wasting syndrome
- Potomac fever
- Pullorum disease (Salmonella pullorum)
- Pulmonary adenomatosis (Jaagsiekte)
- Rabies
- Rift Valley fever
- Rinderpest
- Salmonella enteritidis infection in poultry
- Salmonellosis (S. abortus-equi)
- Salmonellosis (S. abortus-ovis)
- Screw-worm fly - New World (Cochliomyia hominivorax)
- Screw-worm fly - Old World (Chrysomya bezziana)
- Sheep pox and goat pox
- Sheep scab
- Surra (Trypanosoma evansi)
- Swine influenza
- Swine vesicular disease
- Transmissible gastroenteritis
- Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, chronic wasting disease of deer, feline spongiform encephalopathy, scrapie)
- Trichinellosis
- Trypanosomiasis
- Tuberculosis (mammalian or avian)
- Tularaemia
- Vesicular exanthema
- Vesicular stomatitis
- Warble-fly myiasis
- Wesselsbron disease
- West Nile virus infection - clinical
Bee Agent List
- Acariasis tracheal mite (Acarapsis woodi)
- American foulbrood (Paenibacillus larvae)
- European foulbrood (Melissococcus pluten)
- Small hive beetle (Aethina tumida)
- Tropilaelaps mite (Tropilaelaps clareae)
- Varroasis (Varroa destructor)
- Varroasis (Varroa jacobsoni)
Download a printable version of the National Notifiable Disease List (April 2008) 
PDF [57kb]
For further information contact the Animal Health Secretariat.
