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Animal diseases

Tasmania's best defence against the spread of animal and poultry diseases is for owners and those who work with animals and poultry to be able to recognise the symptoms. With all animal and poultry diseases, early diagnosis is most important. These links provide some information on various animal and poultry diseases.

Report any notifiable animal disease on the all hours emergency disease hotline: 1800 675 888. 


Detecting liver fluke

Sheep and cattle producers are offered free on-farm liver fluke testing during autumn.
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Animal diseases

Recognising the symptoms is the best defence against the spread of animal and poultry disease.

Animal Health Laboratory

Services include a wide range of veterinary pathology diagnostic services for livestock and wildlife; post mortems on all companion and performance animals are conducted but all other tests on these categories of animals are performed only in an emergency or market failure situation; and veterinary microbiology diagnostic services.

Horse flu video (Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries Qld website)

The University of Queensland has produced a short video showing what equine influenza looks like.

Keep yourself informed about biosecurity

To be kept informed on biosecurity issues, either generally or just those of relevance to you, please subscribe and you will be sent by email: Biosecurity Tasmania Enews – a quarterly summary of biosecurity issues of relevance to Tasmania; alerts to any significant new disease, pest or weed risk and; advice of any significant changes to biosecurity legislation, protocols or other requirements (ie quarantine rules, animal or plant health legislation, animal welfare legislation etc)

LiceBoss

LiceBoss is a computerised decision support system that helps woolgrowers estimate the probability of lice infestation, estimate the degree of wool loss and offer suggestions on available chemicals and expected residue levels.

Pest and disease outbreaks (Aust Gov)

Access to local, state and national information on responses to outbreaks of animal and plant pests and diseases.

Save the Tasmanian devil website

The fight to save the Tasmanian devil is collaboration between the Tasmanian Government, the University of Tasmania and other research institutions, schools, individuals and the corporate community.

Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease

For information on what the disease is and how it effects devils.

White snail biosecurity information (DPIW)

Latest developments and information on the White Snail outbreak that has been reported on Tasmanian properties.