Animal Disease Surveillance Program Home
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- National Animal Health Information System
The NAHIS is Australia's premier information system for animal health surveillance data and provides detailed reports on Australia's current livestock health status - National Sentinel Hive Program
the NSHP was established to enhance post-border monitoring around Australia for exotic pests of honey bees, including varroa mite, tropilaelaps mite, tracheal mite and Asian honeybee - National Significant Disease Investigation Program
This program boosts Australia's capacity for the early detection of diseases - National Arbovirus Monitoring Program
Includes information on Australia's monitoring program for arboviruses including Akabane, bluetongue and bovine ephemeral fever
- TSE Freedom Assurance Program
A comprehensive source of information on Australia's activities to remain free of TSE's including scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as 'mad cow disease' - Wildlife Event Investigations Team
the WEIT ensures wildlife disease events of potential threat to biodiversity, national livestock productivity or trade, or public health are thoroughly investigated - Australian Bovine Tuberculosis Surveillance Project
The purpose of the ABTBSP is to collect, analyse and report data from surveillance activities undertaken by the Australian Government and state and territory animal health agencies
Australia's reputation as a 'clean, green' supplier of animals and animal products relies on our ability to provide trading partners with credible and justifiable surveillance information. The increasing demands of trade and human health are applying pressure on Australia's national surveillance system and this in turn is increasing the need for national coordination of surveillance activities.
The Animal Disease Surveillance Program has been managed as a core program of Animal Health Australia for a number of years and is funded from both Members' subscriptions and other sources.
The program provides a nationally integrated surveillance system to underpin trade that is supported by the adoption of new and innovative technologies for data generation and information management systems. There are several core activities of the program that are funded by all Members as well as some special projects that are funded by a subset.