Notifiable diseases

If you suspect an animal disease listed below or a notifiable disease incident—whether you are an owner, a vet, laboratory staff or anyone else—you must report it to either:

Notifiable diseases

Early recognition of a serious or exotic animal disease is one of the most important factors in controlling the disease, and reducing its economic and social impact on the whole community. The animal diseases that can cause significant problems have been included in the Biosecurity Act 2014.

Included are both diseases that are not found in Queensland and need to be eradicated if detected (prohibited matter ) and some significant diseases that do occur in Queensland (restricted matter ). Prohibited matter and restricted matter used to be called “Notifiable diseases” under previous legislation. If you become aware of any of these diseases, you must contact us as soon as possible, within 24 hours. Report it to us even if you don’t have a diagnosis yet.

Also report to us any biosecurity event or if any designated animal, such as:

  • cattle
  • sheep
  • goats
  • pigs
  • bison
  • buffalo
  • deer
  • the family Camelidae including alpacas, Arabian camels, llamas
  • the family Equidae including horses, ponies, donkeys, mules, zebras
  • designated birds
  • bees

have:

  • blisters on the mouths or feet.
  • a very high disease or death rate.
  • a sudden and unexplained fall in production.

There are no government charges for investigations of suspected prohibited matter or restricted matter, even if the diagnosis is negative.

Queensland's notifiable diseases

  • African horse sickness
  • African swine fever
  • American foulbrood
  • anaplasmosis, if the disease occurs outside a cattle tick infected zone
  • anthrax
  • Aujeszky's disease
  • Australian bat lyssavirus
  • avian influenza
  • avian mycoplasmosis (M. synoviae)
  • avian paramyxovirus
  • babesiosis, if the disease occurs outside a cattle tick infected zone
  • bluetongue (clinical disease)
  • Borna disease
  • bovine virus diarrhoea type 2
  • brucellosis (B. abortus, B. suis, B. canis and B. melitensis)
  • camelpox
  • cattle tick (Boophilus microplus) infestation, if the disease occurs outside a cattle tick infected zone
  • Chagas disease (T. cruzi)
  • classical swine fever
  • contagious agalactia
  • contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (Mycoplasma mycoides mycoides small colony type)
  • contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (Mycoplasma capricolum)
  • contagious equine metritis (Taylorella equigenitalis)
  • Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever
  • Cysticercus bovis (Taenia saginata)
  • devil facial tumour disease
  • dourine (Trypanosoma equiperdum)
  • duck virus enteritis (duck plague)
  • duck virus hepatitis
  • East Coast fever (Theileria parva)
  • encephalitides (tick borne)
  • enzootic abortion of ewes (Chlamydophila abortus and Chlamydia psittaci serotype 1)
  • enzootic bovine leucosis
  • epizootic haemorrhagic disease (clinical disease)
  • epizootic lymphangitis (Histoplasma capsulatum var.farciminosum)
  • equine encephalomyelitis viruses (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
  • footrot in sheep (Dichelobacter nodosus)
  • fowl typhoid (Salmonella gallinarum)
  • Getah virus infection
  • Glanders (Burkholderia mallei)
  • Goat pox
  • H1N1 swine influenza
  • haemorrhagic septicaemia
  • heartwater (Ehrlichia ruminantium)
  • Hendra virus infection
  • infectious bursal disease (hypervirulent and exotic antigenic variant forms)
  • infectious laryngotracheitis
  • Japanese encephalitis
  • Jembrana disease
  • Johne's disease (Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis)
  • leishmaniosis of any species
  • louping ill
  • lumpy skin disease
  • lyssavirus other than Australian bat lyssavirus
  • maedi visna
  • Malignant catarrhal fever (wildebeest associated)
  • Mediterranean theileriosis (Theileria annulata)
  • Menangle virus
  • Nairobi sheep disease
  • Newcastle disease (virulent and avirulent)
  • Nipah virus
  • porcine cysticercosis (C. cellulosae)
  • porcine enterovirus encephalomyelitis (Teschen)
  • porcine myocarditis (Bungowannah virus infection)
  • porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome
  • post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome
  • Potomac fever
  • pullorum disease (Salmonella pullorum)
  • pulmonary adenomatosis (Jaagsiekte)
  • rabies
  • Rift Valley fever
  • rinderpest
  • salmonella
  • screw-worm fly - New World (Cochliomyia hominivorax)
  • screw-worm fly - Old World (Chrysomya bezziana)
  • sheep pox
  • sheep scab (Psoroptes ovis)
  • 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 (Trichinella spiralis)
  • turkey rhinotracheitis (avian metapneumovirus)
  • trypanosomiasis
  • tuberculosis (mammalian or avian)
  • tularaemia
  • vesicular exanthema
  • vesicular stomatitis
  • warble-fly myiasis (Hypoderma spp.)
  • Wesselsbron disease
  • West Nile virus infection - clinical