Disease Surveillance
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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. This program is now managed by the Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry - National Significant Disease Investigation Program
The NSDI boosts Australia's capacity for the early detection of diseases by providing funds to investigate significant disease events - National Arbovirus Monitoring Program
The NAMP captures information from Australia's arbovirus monitoring program, including for Akabane, bluetongue and bovine ephemeral fever
- National Animal Health Data Standards
The NAHDS are taxonomic and diagnostic coding data sets created to promote accurate and consistent use of animal-health-related diagnostic and surveillance data - The National Sheep Health Monitoring Project
The NSHMP captures abattoir monitoring data for a number of important sheep health conditions that reduce farm profit through productivity losses or wastage in meat processing plants through condemnations - Australian Bovine Tuberculosis Surveillance Project
The ABTBSP collects, analyses and reports 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.