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 Statements
From the AHA farm biosecurity website
- Animal Health Surveillance newsletter
- Declaration of diseases for the purposes of the Stock Diseases 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)
- Beef measles
- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or ‘mad cow disease’)
- Brucellosis in pigs
- Hendra virus
- Hydatids - the basics
- Hydatids - you, too, can be affected
- Leptospirosis in cattle herds
- Liver fluke - the basics
- Lyssavirus and other bat health risks
- Swine influenza
- Zoonoses - animal diseases transmissible to humans
Exotic diseases
- Avian influenza (bird flu)
- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or ‘mad cow disease’)
- Equine influenza
- Foot and mouth disease
Research
From the bookshop
Other livestock
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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. - You can notify of a suspected or confirmed notifiable disease using the online form or fill in the notifiable animal disease form (PDF 44KB) and fax it to NSW DPI Biosecurity on 02 6361 9976.
PROfarm courses
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. - Turning the Worm
Information for the management of endoparasites of farmed animals, including sheep, goats and cattle. - WormFax
A summary of WormTest results (in sheep) from around NSW.