The Animal Health Surveillance Quarterly Report (AHSQ) is the newsletter of Australia’s National Animal Health Information Program (NAHIP). The NAHIP collates data from a wide range of government and nongovernment surveillance and monitoring programs to provide an overview of animal health in Australia.
Contents routinely includes topical feature articles, reports from Wildlife Health Australia and aquatic animal health, a selection of case reports of veterinary investigations by state and territory, and quarterly statistics on endemic disease monitoring and surveillance activities.
The information available in NAHIP and published in AHSQ is important for supporting trade in animal commodities and meeting Australia’s international reporting obligations.
View all AHSQ reports from 1996-2007 below
2007
Reports
- AHSQ Q4 2007: Australia appoints Chief Veterinary Officer, Equine influenza in Australia — update, Activities of the Animal Health Committee, National Arbovirus Monitoring Program, Recent audits and evaluations of Australia’s animal health systems, Australian Wildlife Health Network, Aquatic animal health, State and Territory reports, Quarterly disease statistics, NAHIS contacts.
- AHSQ Q3 2007: Equine influenza in Australia, Australian Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre – update, Audit and evaluation of Australia’s animal health system, Australian Wildlife Health Network, Aquatic animal health, State and Territory reports, Quarterly disease statistics, NAHIS contacts.
- AHSQ Q2 2007: AUSVETPLAN update, World Organisation for Animal Health — General Session, Australian Veterinary Practitioners Surveillance Network report, National Arbovirus Monitoring Program, Aquatic Animal Health, Australian Wildlife Health Network, State and Territory reports, Quarterly disease statistics, NAHIS contacts.
- AHSQ Q1 2007: Australian Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre, Quadrilateral Group meeting, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy forum, Foot-and-mouth disease forum, Aquatic Animal Health, Australian Wildlife Health Network, State and Territory reports, Quarterly disease statistics NAHIS contacts.
2006
AHSQ Q4 2006: National Arbovirus Monitoring Program, Countdown Downunder, World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) stakeholder workshop, Foot-and-mouth disease exercises in Victoria, Avian influenza surveillance in wild birds: an update, Australian Wildlife Health Network, Aquatic animal health, State and Territory reports, Quarterly disease statistics, NAHIS contacts.
AHSQ Q3 2006: National Sentinel Hive Program — the varroa menace, Bovine tuberculosis surveillance, Management of Newcastle disease risk, Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy, The Emergency Animal Disease Response Agreement, Botulism — cause for concern?, Online Veterinary Laboratory Manual, Eleventh International Symposium of Veterinary, Epidemiology and Economics, Australian Wildlife Health Network, Aquatic animal health, State and Territory reports, Quarterly disease statistics, NAHIS contacts.
AHSQ Q2 2006: Gardner Murray moves on, OIE General Session 2, Exercise Eleusis ‘05, Exercise Wild West, International Avian Influenza Technical Assistance Workshop, Arbovirus forum, National Arbovirus Monitoring Program, The BioSIRT project, Australian Wildlife Health Network, Aquatic Animal Health, State and Territory reports, Quarterly disease statistics, NAHIS contacts.
AHSQ Q1 2006: Australian Biosecurity CRC update, Staff changes at Animal Health Australia, International emergency animal disease responsetraining workshop, NAHIS evolves, Quadrilateral Group meeting, Reporting of disease in wildlife and companion animals, Aquatic animal health, Australian Wildlife Health Network, State and Territory reports, Quarterly disease statistics, NAHIS contacts.
2005
- AHSQ Q4 2005: Avian influenza preparedness update, Government-industry workshops on BSE and FMD, Meeting of the OIE Regional Commission for Asia, the Far East and Oceania, NAMP, Case definition: post weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome in pigs, OJD research and development update, Australian Wildlife Health Network, Aquatic animal health.
- AHSQ Q3 2005: Better intergration of animal health and human health activities in zoonoses surveillance, Australian Pig Health Monitoring Scheme, Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre: a new offensive against vertebrate pests, Link found between SARS and bats, AQUAPLAN 2005-2010: Australia’s national strategic plan for aquatic animal health.
- AHSQ Q2 2005: Vale Chris Baldock, National Arbovirus Monitoring Program, Exercise Adventurous Goose, 73rd OIE General Session, FMD Surveillance in Myanmar, Animal Health Committee Report, Australian Wildlife Health Network, Aquatic Animal Health.
- AHSQ Q1 2005: Bovine Syndromic Surveillance System, Australian Biosecurity CRC research, Australian National Quality Assurance Program, OIE notification requirements, Animal Health Quadrilateral discussions, QUADS modelling workshop, Avian influenza preparedness in Australia.
2004
- AHSQ Q4 2004: TSE Freedom Assurance Program update, Australian Biosecurity CRC workshop, National Arbovirus Monitoring Program, Tuberculosis Freedom Assurance Program 2, Enhanced laboratory capacity in Queensland, New FMD vaccine arrangements
- AHSQ Q3 2004: The Australian Veterinary Reserve, Towards an integrated National Animal Health Surveillance System, Wildlife surveillance in Australia, Australian Biosecurity CRC, Regional Workshop on Aquatic Animal Health Emergencies.
- AHSQ Q2 2004: OIE General Session, Animal Welfare Strategy, Animal Health Quadrilateral Discussions, International Animal Health Emergency Reserve, Managing ovine Johne’s disease: a new approach, National Arbovirus Monitoring Program and Avian influenza regional projects.
- AHSQ Q1 2004: Exercise Noonamah, Avian influenza workshop, Frawley review, Changes to OIE notification requirements, Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies freedom assurance program and Disease information management.
2003
- AHSQ Q4 2003: Exercise Tethys, OIE International Bluetongue Symposium, FMD vaccine bank news, OIE Regional Commission Conference.
- AHSQ Q3 2003: Exercise Minotaur, OIE to review BSE guidelines, National Animal Welfare Strategy, Antibiotic residues and antibiotic resistance.
- AHSQ Q2 2003: Virginiamycin, Animal Health Quadrilateral Discussions, OIE General Session, NAMP, BSE in Canada – Australia’s Response.
- AHSQ Q1 2003: NLIS in Victoria, Improved JE monitoring, Aquatic animal health
2002
- AHSQ Q4 2002: Australian Biosecurity CRC, Newcastle disease, small hive beetle, NAMP, bovine tuberculosis
- AHSQ Q3 2002: Exercise Minotaur, Australian Wildlife Health Network, BSE test field trials
- AHSQ Q2 2002: Newcastle disease, OIE General Session, Flock identification scheme, Exercise Minotaur, Review of rural veterinary services
- AHSQ Q1 2002: EAD Response Agreement, Exercise Minotaur, rural animal health services, PIMSC, JETACAR
2001
- AHSQ Q4 2001: Screw-worm fly, anthrax incident, FMD/BSE Policy Forum, aquatic animal health, National Livestock Identification Scheme, NAMP
- AHSQ Q3 2001: Animal Health Australia program workshops, Animal Wildlife Health Network, TB, Top Watch
- AHSQ Q2 2001: NOJDP mid-term review, NT FMD exercise, OIE general session, Animal health in remote central Australia
- AHSQ Q1 2001: Foot-and-mouth disease
2000
- AHSQ Q4 2000: BSE, Animal Health in Australia Conference, VetCom meeting, TB Freedom Assurance Program review, Antibiotic use in food-producing animals
- AHSQ Q3 2000 (pdf – 251 KB): FMD workshop, Animal Disease Surveillance Program, Olympic quarantine, Salmonella surveillance scheme
- AHSQ Q2 2000: FMD in Asia, OIE, NAMP, porcine circovirus study, fish biotoxin reviews, Registry of Wildlife Pathology, Johne’s disease program
- AHSQ Q1 2000: Olympic quarantine, Newcastle disease survey, endosulfan monitoring, Johne’s disease program
1999
- AHSQ Q4 1999: Jetacar report, Newcastle disease, wildlife health issues, ABL surveillance, NAMP
- AHSQ Q3 1999: National Livestock Identification Scheme, aquatic animal health, sheep and goat pox project, Asian bees
- AHSQ Q2 1999: Johne’s disease zoning, Nipah virus, Newcastle disease, NAMP, RCV, Asian bees
- AHSQ Q1 1999: Sydney Olympics, black striped mussels, Newcastle disease
1998
- AHSQ Q4 1998: Pilchard mortalities, endosulphans, mastitis control, arbovirus monitoring
- AHSQ Q3 1998: Newcastle disease outbreak, workshops on FMD and horse diseases
- AHSQ Q2 1998: Animal health surveillance review, Japanese encephalitis, NAMP
- AHSQ Q1 1998 (pdf – 249 KB): Ovine Johne’s disease, TB Assurance Program
1997
- AHSQ Q4 1997: TSE surveillance, avian influenza outbreak, TB freedom
- AHSQ Q3 1997: Food safety, new virus isolated in pigs
- AHSQ Q2 1997: AAHC activity, Brucella suis, screw-worm fly laboratory
- AHSQ Q1 1997: RCV human health study, Victorian anthrax outbreak
1996
- AHSQ Q4 1996: Australian quarantine review, Australian bat lyssavirus
- AHSQ Q3 1996: PRRS survey, EMV in fruit bats
- AHSQ Q2 1996: Johne’s Disease Market Assurance Program
- AHSQ Q1 1996: Australian Animal Health Council Limited