Livestock health and disease
Zoonoses
Zoonotic diseases are infectious diseases that can pass from animals to humans. Seventy-five per cent of new human diseases are zoonotic.
Information by enterprise
- Cattle
Internal and external parasites, poisoning, diseases and disorders of cattle. - Goats
General goat health management, anatomy and physiology, diseases and nutritional deficiencies. - Honey bees
Information about specific pests and diseases of honey bees from a collection of sources, as well as regulatory information and forms. - Horses
Horse feeding and nutrition, welfare, diseases and parasites, poisonings and estimating a horse's weight. - Pigs
Specific disease information and general information about maintaining pig health and well-being. - Poultry
Information on avian influenza, Newcastle disease and other diseases of poultry plus measures for preventing disease. - Sheep
Internal and external parasites, footrot, other diseases including OJD, nutritional disorders, notifiable and emergency diseases.
General information
- Animal health problems following floods and drought-breaking rains
- Animal Health Surveillance newsletter
- Declaration of diseases for the purposes of the Stock Diseases Act
- Declaration of exotic diseases for the purposes of the Exotic Diseases of Animals Act
- Emergency animal diseases
- Emergency management
- Notifiable animal diseases in NSW
- Vet lab manual
Zoonoses - livestock conditions that affect humans
- Anthrax
- Avian influenza (bird flu)
- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or ‘mad cow disease’)
- Hendra virus
- Hydatids - the basics
- Hydatids - you, too, can be affected
- Liver fluke - the basics
- Swine influenza
Exotic diseases
- Avian influenza (bird flu)
- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or ‘mad cow disease’)
- Equine influenza
- Foot and mouth disease
Research
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Emergency and notifiable animal diseases
- Emergency animal diseases
can have serious consequences for trade, production or human health. Contact a vet or call the Emergency Animal Disease Hotline on
1800 675 888
if you see symptoms or deaths in animals that may be due to an emergency animal disease. - Notifiable animal diseases in NSW
A number of animal diseases, including all emergency animal diseases, are notifiable under NSW legislation. This means there's a legal obligation to notify authorities if you know or suspect that an animal has one of these diseases. - Notifiable animal disease form (PDF 44KB)
You can use this form to notify the knowledge or suspicion of a notifiable animal disease.
Other areas of interest
Services
- Laboratory testing services
A range of diagnostic tests to assist vets and growers in improving animal health.
Newsletter
- Animal Health Surveillance
These surveillance reports convey a limited amount of information about the occurance and distribution of livestock disease in New South Wales. - Biosecurity newsletter
Provides stakeholders with information on the various national and state animal biosecurity programs.