Under Queensland legislation, if you become aware of any of these diseases in the designated animals, you must report it to:

Reporting requirements

You must report whether you are an animal owner, veterinarian, laboratory staff or anyone else.

There are no government charges for initial investigations of suspected reportable diseases. All reports are treated confidentially.

The diseases marked with an asterisk (*) are only reportable if the clinical disease is present in the affected animal species.

For all other diseases listed, infection with the aetiological agent, regardless of the clinical status of the affected animal, is also reportable.

Diseases

Aquatic animals

Amphibians

  • Batrachochytrium dendropbatidis
  • Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans
  • Ranavirus.

Crustaceans

  • Acute hepatopancreatic necrosis syndrome (AHPNS)
  • Crayfish plague (Aphanomyces astaci)
  • Decapod iridescent virus 1
  • Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei
  • Gill-associated virus (yellow head virus genotype 2)
  • Infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis virus
  • Infectious myonecrosis
  • Milky haemolymph disease of spiny lobster (Panulirus spp.)
  • Monodon slow growth syndrome
  • Necrotising hepatopancreatitis (Hepatobacter penaei)
  • Taura syndrome (Taura syndrome virus)
  • White spot disease (white spot syndrome virus)
  • White tail disease (Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus)
  • Yellowhead disease (yellow head virus genotype 1).

Finfish

  • Aeromonas salmonicida — atypical strains
  • Bacterial kidney disease (Renibacterium salmoninarum)
  • Enteric redmouth disease (Hagerman strain of Yersinia ruckeri)
  • Enteric septicaemia of catfish (Edwardsiella ictaluri)
  • Epizootic haematopoietic necrosis (epizootic haematopoietic necrosis virus)
  • Epizootic ulcerative syndrome (Aphanomyces invadans)
  • Furunculosis (Aeromonas salmonicida subsp. salmonicida)
  • Gyrodactylosis (Gyrodactylus salaris)
  • Infectious haematopoietic necrosis virus
  • Infectious pancreatic necrosis
  • Infectious salmon anaemia virus
  • Infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus
  • Koi herpesvirus disease (Cyprinid herpesvirus 3)
  • Piscirickettsiosis (Piscirickettsia salmonis)
  • Red sea bream iridoviral disease
  • Salmonid alphavirus
  • Scale drop disease virus
  • Singapore grouper iridovirus
  • Spring viraemia of carp virus
  • Tilapia lake virus disease
  • Turbot reddish body iridovirus
  • Viral encephalopathy and retinopathy
  • Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus
  • Whirling disease (Myxobolus cerebralis).

Molluscs

  • Abalone viral ganglioneuritis (Haliotid herpesvirus-1)
  • Akoya oyster disease
  • Bonamia exitiosa
  • Bonamia ostreae
  • Bonamia species (other than B. exitiosa, B. ostreae)
  • Iridoviroses of molluscs
  • Marteilia refringens
  • Marteilia sydneyi
  • Marteilioides chungmuensis
  • Mikrocytos mackini
  • Ostreid herpesvirus 1 (OsHV-1)
  • Oyster oedema disease
  • Perkinsus marinus
  • Perkinsus olseni.
Bees
  • Acariasis tracheal mite (Acarapis woodi)
  • American foulbrood (Paenibacillus larvae)
  • Tropilaelaps mite (Tropilaelaps clareae or T. mercedesae)
  • Varroa mite/Varroosis (Varroa destructor or V. jacobsoni).
Terrestrial animals
  • African horse sickness (African horse sickness virus)
  • African swine fever (African swine fever virus)
  • Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)
  • Aujeszky's disease (Suid herpesvirus 1)
  • Australian bat lyssavirus
  • Avian influenza (influenza A virus, high and low pathogenicity, in birds)
  • Avian paramyxovirus (avian paramyxovirus serotypes 2–9) — also see:
    • Newcastle disease
    • pigeon paramyxovirus.
  • Bluetongue (bluetongue virus, all serotypes)
  • Borna disease (Borna disease virus 1)
  • Bovine anaplasmosis (Anaplasma marginale), in tick-free areas
  • Bovine babesiosis, in tick-free areas:
    • Babesia bovis
    • B. bigemina
    • B. divergens.
  • Bovine viral diarrhoea type 2 (bovine viral diarrhoea virus type 2)
    Brucellosis, infection with:
    • Brucella abortus
    • B. suis
    • B. canis
    • B. melitensis.
  • Camelpox (camelpox virus)
  • Cattle tick (Rhipicephalus australis) infestation in tick-free areas
  • Chagas disease (Trypanosoma cruzi)
  • Classical swine fever (classical swine fever virus)
  • Contagious agalactia, clinical disease*, in sheep and goats:
    • Mycoplasma agalactia
    • M. capricolum subsp. capricolum
    • M. mycoides subsp. capri
    • M. putrefaciens.
  • Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides small colony type)
  • Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae)
  • Contagious equine metritis (Taylorella equigenitalis)
  • Crimean–Congo haemorrhagic fever (Crimean–Congo haemorrhagic fever virus)
  • Cysticercosis (Taenia saginata or T. solium)
  • Devil facial tumour disease, clinical disease*
  • Dourine (Trypanosoma equiperdum)
  • Duck virus enteritis (Anatid herpesvirus 1)
  • Duck virus hepatitis (duck hepatitis A virus or duck astrovirus type 1 or 2)
  • East Coast fever (Theileria parva)
  • Eastern, western and Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis (eastern, western or Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis viruses)
  • Echinococcosis (Echinococcus multilocularis)
  • Enzootic abortion of ewes (Chlamydophila abortus)
  • Epizootic haemorrhagic disease (epizootic haemorrhagic disease virus), clinical disease*, in ruminants
  • Epizootic lymphangitis (Histoplasma capsulatum var. farciminosum)
  • Equine encephalosis (equine encephalosis virus)
  • Equine herpesvirus abortion and equine herpesvirus encephalomyelitis (equine herpesvirus 1)
  • Equine infectious anaemia (equine infectious anaemia virus)
  • Equine influenza (influenza A virus, in equids)
  • Equine piroplasmosis:
    • Babesia equi
    • B. caballi
    • Theileria equi.
  • Equine viral arteritis (equine arteritis virus)
  • Foot-and-mouth disease (foot-and-mouth disease virus)
  • Footrot (Dichelobacter nodosus), in sheep
  • Getah virus
  • Glanders (Burkholderia mallei)
  • Goat pox (goatpox virus)
  • Haemorrhagic septicaemia (Pasteurella multocida serotypes 6:b and 6:e)
  • Heartwater (Ehrlichia ruminantium)
  • Hendra virus
  • Infectious bursal disease (infectious bursal disease virus), hypervirulent and exotic antigenic variant forms
  • Japanese encephalitis (Japanese encephalitis virus)
  • Jembrana disease (Jembrana disease virus)
  • Johne's disease (Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis), clinical disease, in ruminants
  • Leishmaniosis (Leishmania spp.)
  • Louping ill (louping ill virus)
  • Lumpy skin disease (lumpy skin disease virus)
  • Maedi-visna (maedi-visna virus)
  • Malignant catarrhal fever, wildebeest-associated (alcelaphine herpesvirus 1)
  • Mediterranean theileriosis (Theileria annulata)
  • Menangle virus
  • Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus
  • Mycoplasma iowae
  • Nairobi sheep disease (Nairobi sheep disease virus)
  • Newcastle disease (avian paramyxovirus serotype 1), virulent and avirulent
  • Nipah virus
  • Ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma (jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus)
  • Peste des petits ruminants (peste des petits ruminants virus)
  • Pigeon paramyxovirus (avian paramyxovirus serotype 1, in pigeons)
  • Porcine epidemic diarrhoea (porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus)
  • Porcine myocarditis (Bungowannah virus)
  • Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus)
  • Post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome, clinical disease
  • Potomac fever (Neorickettsia risticii)
  • Rabies (rabies virus or other lyssaviruses)
  • Rift Valley fever (Rift Valley fever virus)
  • Rinderpest (rinderpest virus)
  • Salmonellosis, infection with:
    • Salmonella abortus equi
    • S. abortus ovis
    • Salmonella Enteritidis, in poultry
    • Salmonella Gallinarum
    • Salmonella Pullorum.
  • Screwworm fly, infestation with:
    • Chrysomya bezziana (Old World screwworm)
    • Cochliomyia hominivorax (New World screwworm).
  • Seneca Valley virus (Senecavirus A)
  • Sheep pox (sheeppox virus)
  • Sheep scab (Psoroptes ovis)
  • Surra (Trypanosoma evansi)
  • Swine influenza (influenza A virus in pigs)
  • Swine vesicular disease (swine vesicular disease virus)
  • Teschovirus encephalomyelitis (porcine teschovirus serotype 1)
  • Tick-borne encephalitis (tick-borne encephalitis virus)
  • Transmissible gastroenteritis (transmissible gastroenteritis virus)
  • Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, clinical disease*:
    • bovine spongiform encephalopathy
    • chronic wasting disease of deer
    • feline spongiform encephalopathy
    • scrapie
  • Trichinellosis (Trichinella spiralis)
  • Trypanosomiasis, tsetse fly-associated
  • Tuberculosis, infection with:
    • Mycobacterium avium, in birds
    • Mycobacterium bovis, M. caprae or M. tuberculosis, in mammals.
  • Tularaemia (Francisella tularensis)
  • Turkey rhinotracheitis (avian metapneumovirus)
  • Vesicular exanthema (vesicular exanthema of swine virus)
  • Vesicular stomatitis (vesicular stomatitis virus)
  • Warble-fly myiasis (Hypoderma spp.)
  • Wesselsbron disease (Wesselsbron virus)
  • West Nile virus infection, clinical disease*
  • White-nose syndrome (Pseudogymnoascus destructans), in bats.

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Last updated: 03 Aug 2026