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Disease
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Status
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Date of last occurrence and notes
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Additional information
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Anthrax
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Present
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Limited distribution
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http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal#anthrax
http://www.animalhealthaustralia.com.au/what-we-do/emergency-animal-disease/ausvetplan/
http://www.farmbiosecurity.com.au
http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/disease-information-summaries/ |
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Bluetongue
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Virus present
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Restricted to specific northern areas of Australia. Sentinel herd and vector monitoring programs are in place.
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http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal/notifiable
http://www.animalhealthaustralia.com.au/what-we-do/emergency-animal-disease/ausvetplan/
https://www.animalhealthaustralia.com.au/what-we-do/disease-surveillance/national-arbovirus-monitoring-program/
http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/disease-information-summaries/ |
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Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever
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Free
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Never occurred
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http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal/notifiable |
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Epizootic haemorrhagic disease
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Virus present
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Disease has not been reported
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http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal/notifiable |
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Equine encephalomyelitis (eastern)
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Free
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Never occurred
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http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal/notifiable
http://www.oie.int/wahis_2/public/wahid.php/Wahidhome/Home |
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Heartwater
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Free
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Never occurred
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http://www.animalhealthaustralia.com.au/what-we-do/emergency-animal-disease/ausvetplan/
http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal/notifiable
http://www.oie.int/wahis_2/public/wahid.php/Wahidhome/Home |
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Infection with Aujeszky's disease virus
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Free
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Never occurred
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http://www.animalhealthaustralia.com.au/what-we-do/emergency-animal-disease/ausvetplan/
http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal/notifiable
http://www.oie.int/wahis_2/public/wahid.php/Wahidhome/Home |
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Infection with Brucella abortus
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Free
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Australia declared freedom in all terrestrial animal species in 1989.
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http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal/notifiable
http://www.animalhealthaustralia.com.au/what-we-do/emergency-animal-disease/ausvetplan/
http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/disease-information-summaries/ |
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Infection with Brucella melitensis
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Free
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Never occurred in terrestrial animals.
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http://www.animalhealthaustralia.com.au/what-we-do/emergency-animal-disease/ausvetplan/ /
http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/disease-information-summaries/ |
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Infection with Brucella suis
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Serological evidence
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Maintained in feral pigs in parts of New South Wales and Queensland. Rare occurrence in domestic pigs. Sporadic detections in pig hunting dog however this is not OIE notifiable.
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http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal/notifiable
http://www.health.gov.au
http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/disease-information-summaries/ |
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Infection with Echinococcus granulosus
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Present
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http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/content/cda-pubs-cdi-2001-cdi2504-cdi2504c17.htm
http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal/notifiable |
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Infection with Echinococcus multilocularis
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Free
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Never occurred
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http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal/notifiable
http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal/notifiable |
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Infection with foot-and-mouth disease virus
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Free
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1872. Australia is officially recognised by the OIE as free without vaccination.
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http://www.animalhealthaustralia.com.au/what-we-do/emergency-animal-disease/ausvetplan/
http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal#footandmouth-disease
http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/disease-information-summaries/ |
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Infection with rabies virus
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Free
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1867
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http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal#rabies
http://www.animalhealthaustralia.com.au/what-we-do/emergency-animal-disease/ausvetplan/
http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/ohp-rabies-consumer-info.htm
http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/disease-information-summaries/ |
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Infection with Rift Valley fever virus
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Free
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Never occurred
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http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal/notifiable
http://www.animalhealthaustralia.com.au/what-we-do/emergency-animal-disease/ausvetplan/
http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/disease-information-summaries/ |
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Infection with rinderpest virus
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Free
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1923. With the global eradication of rinderpest finalised in 2011, all countries are free.
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http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal/notifiable
http://www.animalhealthaustralia.com.au/what-we-do/emergency-animal-disease/ausvetplan/
http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/disease-information-summaries/ |
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Infection with Trichinellaspp.
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Not reported
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Trichinella spiralis is not present. T. pseudospiralis is present in wildlife.
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http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal/notifiable
http://www.animalhealthaustralia.com.au/what-we-do/emergency-animal-disease/ausvetplan/
http://www.health.gov.au |
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Japanese encephalitis
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Serological evidence
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Detected seasonally in Torres Strait and on Cape York in 1998 and 2004.
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http://www.animalhealthaustralia.com.au/what-we-do/emergency-animal-disease/ausvetplan/
http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal/notifiable |
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New World screw-worm fly (Cochliomyia hominivorax)
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Free
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Never occurred
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http://www.animalhealthaustralia.com.au/what-we-do/emergency-animal-disease/ausvetplan/
http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal#screwworm-fly
http://www.oie.int/wahis_2/public/wahid.php/Wahidhome/Home |
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Old World screw-worm fly (Chrysomya bezziana)
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Free
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Never occurred
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http://www.animalhealthaustralia.com.au/what-we-do/emergency-animal-disease/ausvetplan/
https://www.animalhealthaustralia.com.au/what-we-do/disease-surveillance/screw-worm-fly/
http://www.agriculture.gov.au/biosecurity/australia/naqs/naqs-target-lists/screw-worm-fly
http://www.oie.int/wahis_2/public/wahid.php/Wahidhome/Home |
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Paratuberculosis
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Present
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National control and management programs are in place.
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http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal/notifiable
http://edis.animalhealthaustralia.com.au
http://nahis.animalhealthaustralia.com.au
http://www.oie.int/wahis_2/public/wahid.php/Wahidhome/Home |
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Q fever
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Present
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http://www.qfever.org
http://www.health.gov.au/internet/publications/publishing.nsf/Content/cda-cdi31suppl.htm~cda-cdi31suppl-3.htm~cda-cdi31suppl-3l.htm
http://www.oie.int/for-the-media/animal-diseases/animal-disease-information-summaries/ |
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Surra (Trypanosoma evansi)
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Free
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Never occurred
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http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal#surra
http://www.animalhealthaustralia.com.au/what-we-do/emergency-animal-disease/ausvetplan/
http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/oie-listed-diseases-2018/
http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/technical-disease-cards/
http://www.oie.int/wahis_2/public/wahid.php/Wahidhome/Home |
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Tularaemia
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Present
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Two human cases reported in Tasmania in 2011, detected in archived samples Tasmanian ringtail possums sampled in 2002.
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http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal/notifiable
http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/oie-listed-diseases-2018/
http://www.oie.int/wahis_2/public/wahid.php/Wahidhome/Home |
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West Nile fever
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Australian variants present
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A previously unknown Australian strain of West Nile virus was identified following an outbreak of neurological disease in horses in 2011. No cases were reported in 2017.
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http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal/notifiable
http://www.animalhealthaustralia.com.au/what-we-do/emergency-animal-disease/ausvetplan /
http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/oie-listed-diseases-2018/ |
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Cattle diseases
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Bovine anaplasmosis
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Present
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Transmission mainly in areas of Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia.
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http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal/notifiable
http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/oie-listed-diseases-2018/
http://www.oie.int/wahis_2/public/wahid.php/Wahidhome/Home |
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Bovine babesiosis
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Present
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Transmission mainly in areas of Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia
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http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal/notifiable
http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/oie-listed-diseases-2018/
http://www.oie.int/wahis_2/public/wahid.php/Wahidhome/Home |
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Bovine genital campylobacteriosis
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Present
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http://www.oie.int/wahis_2/public/wahid.php/Wahidhome/Home |
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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
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Free
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Never occurred. The National Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Freedom Assurance Program includes surveillance. Australia has official OIE `negligible risk’ status.
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http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal#bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy
http://www.animalhealthaustralia.com.au/what-we-do/emergency-animal-disease/ausvetplan/
https://www.animalhealthaustralia.com.au/what-we-do/disease-surveillance/tse-freedom-assurance-program/
http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/oie-listed-diseases-2018/ |
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Bovine tuberculosis
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Free
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Australia declared freedom in 1997; the last case in any species was reported in 2002.
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http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal/notifiable
http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/oie-listed-diseases-2018/
http://www.oie.int/wahis_2/public/wahid.php/Wahidhome/Home |
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Bovine viral diarrhoea
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Present
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Bovine viral diarrhoea virus 1 (BVDV-1) is present; BVDV-2 has never occurred.
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http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal/notifiable
http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/oie-listed-diseases-2018/ |
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Enzootic bovine leucosis
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The dairy cattle herd is free. Very low prevalence in beef cattle.
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Australian dairy herd achieved freedom on 31 December 2012.
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http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal/notifiable
http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/oie-listed-diseases-2018/ |
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Haemorrhagic septicaemia
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Free
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Never occurred. Strains of Pasteurella multocida are present, but not the 6b or 6e strains that cause haemorrhagic septicaemia.
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http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal/notifiable
http://www.animalhealthaustralia.com.au/what-we-do/emergency-animal-disease/ausvetplan/ |
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Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis / infectious pustular vulvovaginitis
|
Present
|
Bovine herpesvirus (BHV) – 1.2b is present; BHV-1.1 and BHV-1.2a have never occurred.
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http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/oie-listed-diseases-2018/ |
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Infection with Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoidesSC (contagious bovine pleuropneumonia)
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Free
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1967. Australia declared freedom in 1973 and is officially recognised by the OIE as free.
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http://www.agriculture.gov.au/pests-diseases-weeds/animal/notifiable
http://www.animalhealthaustralia.com.au/what-we-do/emergency-animal-disease/ausvetplan/
http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/oie-listed-diseases-2018/
http://www.oie.int/wahis_2/public/wahid.php/Wahidhome/Home |
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Lumpy skin disease
|
Free
|
Never occurred
|
http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/oie-listed-diseases-2018/
http://www.animalhealthaustralia.com.au/what-we-do/emergency-animal-disease/ausvetplan/ |
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Theileriosis
|
Free
|
Theileria parva and T. annulata are not present
|
http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/oie-listed-diseases-2018/ |
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Trichomonosis
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Present
|
|
http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/oie-listed-diseases-2018/ |
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Trypanosomosis (tsetse borne)
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Free
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Never occurred
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http://www.oie.int/animal-health-in-the-world/oie-listed-diseases-2018/ |
