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Annex

Zoonotic diseases of biosecurity concern

Effective 8 October 2021 to 4 May 2022

Viruses and Prions:

  1. Avian influenza (avian influenza virus).
  2. Equine encephalomyelitis (Eastern, Venezuelan and Western equine encephalomyelitis viruses).
  3. Foot and mouth disease (foot and mouth disease virus).
  4. Japanese encephalitis (Japanese encephalitis virus).
  5. Hantaan virus (Korean haemorrhagic fever virus).
  6. Louping ill (also known as Russian spring summer encephalitis, Central European encephalitis, caused by Louping ill virus).
  7. Lymphocytic choriomeningitis (Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus).
  8. Newcastle disease (Newcastle disease virus).
  9. Nipah virus encephalitis (Nipah virus).
  10. Rift Valley fever (Rift Valley fever virus).
  11. St Louis Encephalitis (St Louis Encephalitis virus).
  12. Swine influenza (swine influenza virus).
  13. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, scrapie, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, prion protein).
  14. Vesicular stomatitis (Vesicular stomatitis virus).
  15. West Nile fever (West Nile virus).

Bacteria and fungi:

  1. Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis).
  2. Bovine tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis).
  3. Brucellosis (Brucellaabortus, B. canis, B melitensis).
  4. Enzootic abortion of ewes (Chlamydophila abortus).
  5. Epizootic lymphangitis or histoplamosis (Histoplasma capsulatum var. farciminosum).
  6. Glanders (Burkholderia mallei, formerly Pseudomonas mallei).
  7. Salmonellosis (Salmonella Abortusovis, Salmonella Enteritidis, Salmonella Gallinarum, Salmonella Pullorum).
  8. Tularemia (Francisella tularensis).