Horse health and disease
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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 watch 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.
General health
- Equine Herpes virus abortion
- Equine influenza
- Estimating a horse's condition and weight
- Flavivirus nervous disease in horses
- Hendra virus
- Horse Events: Biosecurity guidelines for organisers and competitors
- Horse health - vaccination against tetanus and strangles
- Kunjin virus - a new neurological disease in horses
- Notifiable animal diseases in NSW
- Stop the spread of horse diseases
- Strangles
- The do's and don'ts of moving horses from Queensland and NSW - don't spread cattle ticks
- Worm control in horses