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| Notifiable Animal DiseasesThe law relating to notifiable animal diseases is a very important part of our defence of Tasmania’s livestock (and, in the case of zoonotic diseases, Tasmanian people) against serious diseases.
We need to be able to investigate any sign of any of the listed diseases quickly and, if a case of the disease were to be confirmed, act quickly and effectively in containing and then controlling or eradicating the disease.
Notifiable diseases in Tasmania are broken down into two lists – List A and List B.
List A diseases are exotic – that is, we believe there are no cases in Tasmania. The law requires that any suspicion of a List A disease is reported immediately and that the owner of the suspect animals isolates them immediately, pending further investigation of the signs.
List B diseases are endemic – that is, they are known to occur in Tasmania or on the Australian mainland and some form of monitoring or control is required. The law requires that any suspicion of a List B disease is reported immediately. There is no legal requirement to isolate the suspect animals pending a further investigation of the signs, but owners are strongly urged to take all reasonable steps to prevent any spread of those List B diseases that are contagious.
In addition to the List A and List B diseases, there are two further categories of notifiable disease that must be reported.
1. Any suspect case of a new disease must be reported immediately.
2. Any disease that is causing deaths or production losses and which is not readily diagnosed is deemed to be an unknown disease. Any unknown disease must also be reported immediately and the suspect animals isolated pending further investigation of the signs.
To report any notifiable disease, phone the all hours emergency disease hotline on 1800 675 888.
For further information on Tasmania’s notifiable diseases or on the legal requirements relating to notifiable diseases, phone the Chief Veterinary Officer on 03 6233 6875.
The legal requirements in relation to notifiable diseases are prescribed in the Animal Health Act 1995 – in particular, sections 26 to 30. This Act is available at www.thelaw.tas.gov.au . Use the search engine on this site to locate the Act.
There are penalties for failing to report a notifiable disease or failing to isolate animals suspected of having a List A disease or an unknown disease.
Abalone ganglioneuritis
Acariasis of bees
African horse sickness
African swine fever
Africanised honey bees
Akoya oyster disease
Anthrax
Aujeszky’s disease
Australian bat lyssavirus
Avian influenza
Bacterial kidney disease (Renibacterium salmoninarum)
Baculoviral midgut gland necrosis of crustaceans
Bluetongue disease
Bonamia exitiosus infection in shellfish
Bonamia ostereae infection in shellfish
Borna
Bovine brucellosis (Brucella abortus)
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Candidatus Xenohalitis californiensis infection in shellfish
Caprine and ovine brucellosis (Brucella melitensis)
Chagas disease
Channel catfish virus disease
Chronic wasting disease of deer
Classical swine fever
Contagious bovine pleuro pneumonia (Mycoplasma mycoides)
Contagious caprine pleuro pneumonia (Mycoplasma capricolum)
Contagious equine metritis
Crayfish plague (Aphanomyces astaci)
Dourine (Trypanosoma equiperdum)
Duck viral enteritis
Duck virus hepatitis
East Coast Fever
Encephalitides (tick-borne)
Enetric redmouth disease (Yersinia ruckeri – Hagerman strain)
Enterovirus encephalomyelitis (Teschen)
Epizootic haematopoietic necrosis
Epizootic lymphangitis
Epizootic ulcerative syndrome (Aphanomyces invaderis)
Equine encephalomyelitis (Eastern and Western)
Equine encephalosis
Equine influenza
Equine piroplasmosis (babesiosis)
Foot-and-mouth disease
Furunculosis (Aeromonas salmonicida ssp. salmonicida)
Getah virus disease
Gill-associated virus of crustaceans
Glanders
Goat pox
Goldfish ulcer disease (Aeromonas salmonicida, goldfish atypical strain)
Grouper iridoviral disease
Gyrodactylosis (Gyrodactylus salaris)
Haemorrhagic septicemia
Haplosporidium costale infection in shellfish
Haplosporidium nelsoni infection in shellfish
Heartwater
Hendra virus
Infection with koi herpesvirus
Infectious bursal disease (hypervirulent form)
Infectious haematopoietic necrosis
Infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis of crustaceans
Infectious pancreatic necrosis
Infectious salmon anaemia
Iridovirosis of shellfish
Japanese encephalitis
Jembrana disease
Koi mass mortality
Louping ill
Lumpy skin disease
Maedi-visna
Malignant catarrhal fever (wildebeest associated)
Marteilia refringens infection in shellfish
Marteilia sydneyi infection in shellfish
Menangle virus
Mikrocytos mackini infection in shellfish
Mikrocytos roughleyi infection in shellfish
Nairobi sheep disease
Necrotising hepatopancreatitis of crustaceans
New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax)
Newcastle disease (virulent)
Nipah virus
Nocardiosis of shellfish
Old World screwworm (Chrysomya bezziana)
Oncorynchus masou virus disease
Ovine pulmonary adenomatosis
Perkinsosis of shellfish
Peste des petits ruminants
Piscirickettsiosis (Piscirickettsia salmonis)
Porcine myocarditis
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome
Post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome
Potomac fever
Rabies
Red sea bream iridoviral disease
Rift valley fever
Rinderpest
Scrapie
Sealice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis)
Sheep pox
Sheep scab
Spawner-isolated mortality virus disease of crustaceans
Spherical baculovirosis (Penaeus monodon-type baculovirus) of crustaceans
Spring viraemia of carp
Surra (Trypanosoma evansi)
Swine influenza
Swine vesicular disease
Taura syndrome of crustaceans
Tetrahedral baculovirosis (Baculovirus penaei) of crustaceans
Tracheal mite of bees
Transmissible gastro-enteritis
Trichinellosis
Tropilaelaps mite (Tropilaelaps clareae)
Trypanosomiasis
Tuberculosis in any mammal
Tularaemia
Varroasis (Varroa destructor)
Varroasis (Varroa jacobsoni)
Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis
Vesicular exanthema
Vesicular stomatitis
Viral encephalopathy and retinopathy
Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia
Warble infestation
Wesselbron disease
West Nile virus infection - clinical
Whirling disease (Myxobolus cerebralis)
White spot disease of crustaceans
White sturgeon iridoviral disease
Yellowhead disease of crustaceans
American foul brood
Avian psittacosis
Bonamia species infection in shellfish, other than Bonamia ostereae infection in shellfish or Bonamia exitiosus infection in shellfish
Bovine anaplasmosis
Bovine babesiosis
Chalkbrood
Clinical salmonellosis
Contagious agalactia
Devil Facial Tumour Disease
Enteric septicaema of catfish (Edwardsiella ictaluri)
Enzootic bovine leukosis
Equine herpes virus 1 (abortigenic and neurological strains)
Equine infectious anemia
Equine viral arteritis
European foul brood
Hydatid disease
Leptospira interrogans serovar hardjo
Leptospira interrogans serovar pomona
Listeria monocytogenes infection
Marine aeromonad disease (Aeromonas salmonicida, marine atypical strain)
Ovine anthelmintic resistance (resistance to macrocyclic lactones)
Ovine brucellosis (Brucella ovis)
Paratuberculosis (Johne's disease)
Porcine brucellosis (Brucella suis)
Porcine cysticercosis (Cysticercus cellulosae)
Pullorum disease (Salmonella pullorum)
Q fever (Coxiella burnetii)
Rickettsia like organism (RLO) of salmonids
Salmonella enteritidis infection in poultry
Salmonellosis (Salmonella abortus equi)
Salmonellosis (Salmonella abortusovis)
Small Hive Beetle
Streptococcosis of salmonids (Lactococcus gravieae)
Taenia saginata cycticercosis
Tasmania aquatic birnavirus
Verotoxic E coli
Contact: Senior Veterinary OfficerBruce Jackson
Snr Veterinary Officer (EAD)
165 Westbury Road
PROSPECT TAS 7250
Phone: 03 6336 5306
Fax: 03 6336 5374
Email: Bruce.Jackson@dpiw.tas.gov.au
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