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Animal Health Australia

Disease Surveillance

A key program within Animal Health is the implementation of targeted and passive surveillance activities involving production livestock.  There is a network of 16 regional Animal Health Officers and 8 field Veterinarians around the state involved in disease surveillance programs and monitoring. Their knowledge of, and connections with, local livestock industries is essential for encouraging unusual disease event reporting and for disease investigations. The early detection of any Exotic and Emergency Animal Disease events is their number one priority. This is to enable rapid response with any detection, allowing swift eradication. This is of major importance in regards to Foot and Mouth Disease or significant public health related, and other exotic animal diseases, to reduce the economic and social impacts of any occurrence.

The focus of the Disease Surveillance Group is to:

  • Prevent, or provide early detection of, animal diseases representing major economic or public health risks to SA, including exotic or newly emerging animal diseases.
  • Provide an animal disease surveillance system in SA to help maintain international confidence and trade access for livestock and products.
  • Fulfil PIRSA’s obligations under the “National Animal Health Performance Standards” and the “Emergency Animal Disease Response Agreement”.
  • Meet numerous national animal disease reporting obligations, (including the National Significant Disease Investigation Program, OIE disease reporting, “Mad Cow Disease” surveillance, and Bird Flu surveillance).
  • Relay information gathered to the people who need to know, when they need to know.

The system of monitoring for animal diseases within SA depends on participation by the SA public and industries that the surveillance is there to support. It uses a network of reporting of animal disease events from:

  • the SA public
  • livestock producers
  • rural and city veterinarians
  • wildlife carers and observers
  • public health organisations.

It is underpinned by PIRSA-Biosecurity Disease Surveillance veterinary investigations, a team of rural field Animal Health Officers and vets, and ongoing targeted monitoring programs.

ANY UNUSUAL OR SERIOUS ANIMAL DISEASE EVENTS IN ANY SPECIES SHOULD BE REPORTED TO THE: 

“DISEASE WATCH HOTLINE”
 1800 675 888.

Other Topics of Interest

Artificial Breeding Centres
Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) Surveillance
Enhanced Abattoir Disease Surveillance (Sheep)
Feeding Food Scraps to Pigs
Notifiable Animal Diseases
Ovine Brucellosis in South Australia
Reporting Serious or Unusual Animal Disease Events
Overseas Export of Livestock
Rural Practitioner “Enhanced Disease Surveillance” in South Australia
The National Arbovirus Monitoring Program in South Australia