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| Notifiable Animal Diseases
The Animal Health Act requires people to report any case or suspicion of a notifiable animal disease. These notifiable diseases are all serious and some are zoonotic (that is, they can infect humans as well). 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.
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 viral mortality
Acariasis tracheal mite (Acarapsis woodi)
African horse sickness
African swine fever
Africanised honey bees
Akoya oyster disease
Anthrax
Aujeszky’s disease
Australian bat lyssavirus
Avian influenza
Avian mycoplasmosis (Mycoplasma synoviae)
Bacterial kidney disease (Renibacterium salmoninarum)
Bluetongue disease
Bonamia exitiosa infection in shellfish
Bonamia ostreae infection in shellfish
Borna disease
Brucellosis (Brucella abortus, B. canis, B.suis and B. melitensis)
Camelpox
Chagas’ disease (Trypanosoma cruzi)
Channel catfish virus disease
Classical swine fever
Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (Mycoplasma mycoides)
Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (Mycoplasma capricolum)
Contagious equine metritis
Crayfish plague (Aphanomyces astaci)
Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever
Dourine (Trypanosoma equiperdum)
Duck viral enteritis
Duck virus hepatitis
East Coast Fever
Encephalitides (tick-borne)
Enetric redmouth disease (Yersinia ruckeri – Hagerman strain)
Epizootic haematopoietic necrosis
Epizootic lymphangitis
Epizootic ulcerative syndrome (Aphanomyces invaderis)
Equine encephalomyelitis (Eastern, Western and Venezuelan)
Equine encephalosis
Equine influenza
Equine piroplasmosis (Babesia equi, Babesia caballi and Theileria equi)
Foot and mouth disease
Furunculosis (Aeromonas salmonicida subsp. salmonicida)
Getah virus disease
Gill-associated virus of crustaceans
Glanders
Grouper iridoviral disease
Gyrodactylosis (Gyrodactylus salaris)
Haemorrhagic septicemia
Haplosporidium nelsoni infection in shellfish
Heartwater
Hendra virus infection
Infectious bursal disease (hypervirulent and exotic antigenic variant forms)
Infectious haematopoietic necrosis
Infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis of crustaceans
Infectious myonecrosis of crustaceans
Infectious pancreatic necrosis
Infectious salmon anaemia
Iridovirosis of shellfish
Japanese encephalitis
Jembrana disease
Koi herpesvirus disease
Louping ill
Lumpy skin disease
Maedi-visna
Malignant catarrhal fever (wildebeest asssociated)
Marteilia refringens infection in shellfish
Marteilia sydneyi infection in shellfish
Marteillioides chugmuensis infection in shellfish
Menangle virus infection
Mikrocytos mackini infection in shellfish
Mikrocytos roughleyi infection in shellfish
Nairobi sheep disease
Newcastle disease (virulent)
Nipah virus infection
Nocardiosis of shellfish
Oncorynchus masou virus disease
Perkinsosis of shellfish
Peste des petits ruminants
Piscirickettsiosis (Piscirickettsia salmonis)
Porcine enterovirus encephalomyelitis (Teschen )
Porcine myocarditis (Bungowannah virus infection)
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome
Post-weaning multi-systemic wasting syndrome
Potomac fever
Pulmonary adenomatosis (Jaagsiekte)
Rabies
Red sea bream iridoviral disease
Rift valley fever
Rinderpest
Screw-worm fly - New World (Cochliomyia hominivorax)
Screw-worm fly - Old World (Chrysomya bezziana)
Sealice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis)
Sheep pox and goat pox
Sheep scab
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
Transmissible gastroenteritis
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, chronic wasting disease of deer, feline bovine spongiform encephalopathy, scrapie)
Trichinellosis
Tropilaelaps mite (Tropilaelaps clareae)
Trypanosomiasis
Tuberculosis in any mammal
Tularaemia
Varroasis (Varroa destructor)
Varroasis (Varroa jacobsoni)
Vesicular exanthema
Vesicular stomatitis
Viral encephalopathy and retinopathy
Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia
Warble-fly myiasis
Wesselbron disease
West Nile virus infection – clinical
Whirling disease (Myxobolus cerebralis)
White spot disease of crustaceans
White tail disease of crustaceans
Xenohalitotis californiensis infection in shellfish
Yellowhead disease of crustaceans
Abalone viral ganglioneuritis
Aeromonas salmonicida - atypical strains (marine aeromonad disease, goldfish ulcer disease)
American foulbrood (Paenibacillus larvae)
Anthelmintic resistance (resistance to macrocyclic lactones)
Avian psittacosis
Bonamia species infection in shellfish, other than Bonamia ostreae infection in shellfish or Bonamia exitiosus infection in shellfish
Bovine anaplasmosis
Bovine babesiosis
Bovine Virus Diarrhoea Type 2
Chalkbrood
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 foulbrood (Melissococcus pluten)
Hydatid disease
Leishmaniosis
Leptospira interrogans serovar hardjo
Leptospira interrogans serovar pomona
Listeria monocytogenes infection
Ovine brucellosis (Brucella ovis)
Paratuberculosis (Johne's disease)
Porcine cysticercosis (Cysticercus cellulosae)
Pullorum disease (Salmonella pullorum)
Q fever (Coxiella burnetii)
Rickettsia like organism (RLO) of salmonids
Salmonella Enteritidis infection in poultry
Salmonellosis (clinical disease)
Salmonellosis (Salmonella abortus-equi)
Salmonellosis (Salmonella abortus-ovis)
Small hive beetle (Aethina tumida)
Streptococcosis of salmonids (Lactococcus gravieae)
Taenia saginata cycticercosis
Tasmania aquatic birnavirus
Tuberculosis (avian)
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@dpipwe.tas.gov.au
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