The Absence of Specified Animal Diseases from New Zealand
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1 December 2011
To whom it may concern:
ABSENCE OF SPECIFIED ANIMAL DISEASES FROM NEW ZEALAND
As New Zealand's Director Post-Border I confirm that none of the following specified animal diseases has ever occurred in New Zealand.
foot and mouth disease | sheep pox and goat pox |
rinderpest | rabies |
lumpy skin disease | glanders |
swine vesicular disease | European foulbrood |
African swine fever | tracheal mite |
bluetongue | tropilaelaps mites |
akabane disease | west Nile virus |
African horse sickness | Newcastle disease |
highly pathogenic avian influenza | duck viral enteritis |
Rift Valley fever | duck viral hepatitis |
ovine pulmonary adenomatosis | contagious caprine pleuropneumonia |
Japanese encephalitis | maedi-visna |
equine influenza | Brucella melitensis |
vesicular stomatitis | contagious agalactia |
bovine spongiform encephalopathy | porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome |
chronic wasting disease | enzootic abortion of ewes |
peste des petits ruminants |
New Zealand has been free from:
infectious bursal disease since 1999 | Brucella abortus since 1989 |
Aujeszky's disease since 1995 | fowl typhoid and pullorum disease since 1985 |
anthrax since 1954 | scrapie since 1954 |
classical swine fever since 1953 | contagious bovine pleuropneumonia since 1864 |
equine infectious anaemia since 1999 |
New Zealand has legislation prohibiting the feeding of ruminant material to ruminants; this legislation hasbeen in place since 2000.
It should be noted that the lists presented above are not exhaustive – further information regarding diseases not present in New Zealand or New Zealand's disease status can be obtained by emailing: Surveillance@maf.govt.nz
David Hayes
Director Readiness and Response
Page last updated: 21 November 2011