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List: High risk human and zoonotic diseases

Effective 8 August 2019 to 19 February 2020

Diagnostic kits, reagents and standards containing or testing for the following human pathogens and diseases (or diseases with zoonotic potential) may NOT be imported using this import permit.

Microorganisms associated with quarantinable diseases of humans:

  1. Cholera (Vibrio cholerae)

  2. Highly pathogenic avian influenza (human)

  3. Human swine influenza with pandemic potential

  4. Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) (Middle Eaastern respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus)

  5. Plague (Yersinia pestis)

  6. Rabies (Lyssavirus)

  7. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) (severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus)

  8. Smallpox (Variola virus and Poxvirus variola)

  9. Viral haemorrhagic fevers of humans including ebola haemorrhagic fever (Filoviridae), Marburg virus (Filoviridae), Lassa fever (Arenaviridae) and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (Nairovirus)

  10. Yellow fever (in Northern Australia) (Flavivirus)

Diagnostic kits, reagents and standards containing or testing for the following pathogens and diseases with zoonotic potential may NOT be imported using this import permit.

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)