Notifiable Diseases
Notifiable Diseases
A notifiable disease is any disease that is required by law to be reported to government authorities. This collation of information allows the authorities to monitor the disease, and provides early warning of possible outbreaks.
The Notification and Control of Diseases Affecting Terrestrial Animals Regulations 2016 provides the basic legislation for the control and eradication of animal diseases. The following diseases, if suspected or confirmed, must be notified to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in accordance with the Regulations or the Bovine TB and Brucellosis orders.
Part A
- African horse sickness virus
- African swine fever virus
- Anthrax
- Avian influenza (including highly pathogenic avian influenza and low pathogenic avian influenza)
- Avian paramyxovirus (including Newcastle disease and paramyxovirus of pigeons)
- Bluetongue
- Brucellosis in ruminants and swine
- Classical swine fever
- Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia
- Dourine
- Epizootic haemorrhagic disease
- Equine encephalomyelitis (including Western Equine Encephalomyelitis and Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis)
- Equine infectious anaemia
- Epizootic lymphangitis in equidae
- Equine viral arteritis
- Foot-and-Mouth disease
- Glanders (farcy) in equidae
- Goat pox
- Hendra Virus
- Japanese encephalitis
- Lumpy skin disease
- Peste des petits ruminants
- Rabies
- Rift Valley fever
- Rinderpest (cattle plague)
- Sheep pox
- Small hive beetle (Aethina tumida)
- Surra (Trypsanoma evansi)
- Swine vesicular disease
- Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy and scrapie
- Tropilaelaps mite (Tropilaelaps spp.)
- Tuberculosis in ruminants
- Vesicular stomatitis
- West Nile Fever
Part B
- American foulbrood
- Arizona disease in poultry (Salmonella arizoniae)
- Aujeszkys Disease
- Avian chlamydiosis (Psittacosis)
- Avian infectious laryngotracheitis
- Avian mycoplasmosis (caused by or involving Mycoplasma gallisepticum, Mycoplasma meleagridis or Mycoplasma synovia)
- Bovine Besnoitiosis
- Bovine viral diarrhoea
- Caprine arthritis/encephalitis
- Contagious agalactia
- Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia
- Contagious equine metritis
- Echinococcus multilocularis
- Enzootic abortion of ewes
- Enzootic Bovine Leukosis
- European foulbrood
- Maedi Visna
- Ovine pulmonary adenomatosis (Jaagsiekte)
- Paratuberculosis in ruminating animals (Johnes disease)
- Porcine epidemic diarrhoea
- Salmonellosis (caused by or involving Salmonella enteriditis or Salmonella typhimurium)
- Salmonellosis in poultry (caused by or involving Salmonella hadar, Salmonella infantis or Salmonella virchow)
- Sheep Scab
- Teschovirus encephalomyelitis
- Transmissible gastro-enteritis (porcine respiratory corona virus)
- Tuberculosis in non-ruminants
- Venezuelan Equine Encephalomyelitis
- Warble fly infestation
Part C
- Bovine genital campylobacteriosis
- Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever
- Equine piroplasmosis
- Fowl typhoid (Salmonella gallinarum)
- Heartwater
- Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis/infectious pustular vulvovaginitis
- Leishmaniasis
- Monkey pox virus
- Psoroptic mange in cattle
- Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS or blue ear)
- Pullorum disease (Salmonella pullorum)
- Q fever
- Swine influenza
- Trichinellosis