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Avian influenza — on 13 June 2025, Agriculture Victoria announced that the February 2025 outbreak of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) H7N8 in northern Victoria had been successfully eradicated.
This National Biosecurity Week, AHA CEO Dr Samantha Allan celebrates the everyday Australians who help protect what matters most — our environment, food, economy, and communities.
Avian influenza — on 13 June 2025, Agriculture Victoria announced that the February 2025 outbreak of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) H7N8 in northern Victoria had been successfully eradicated.
The AUSVETPLAN Technical Review Group (TRG) held its 47th meeting in Adelaide, South Australia on the 16-18 August 2022. This groups meets every 6 months. The TRG comprises of biosecurity and emergency animal disease expert staff from the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, each of the state and territory governments, and the […]
After much anticipation, a revamped Market Assurance Program for Goats (GoatMAP) has officially been released. Developed in collaboration with Dr Richard Shephard from Herd Health Pty Ltd and a working group of industry and government representatives, the new program will assist producers in promoting their biosecurity and disease low risk status. The update of GoatMAP […]
The founding partners of the Biosecurity Collective welcome today’s release of Australia’s first National Biosecurity Strategy, which marks the start of transformative change to the Australian biosecurity system. The release of the Strategy completes the first step of the Biosecurity Collective’s five-point plan, which also aims to establish 2021-2030 as the Decade of Biosecurity; to […]
WHAT DO WE DO? The Animal Health Australia (AHA) Training Team provides education, training and administrative services that support and build the biosecurity response capability of our members. Our subscription-funded activities assist our members to meet their responsibilities under the Emergency Animal Disease Response Agreement (EADRA). We identify national emergency animal disease (EAD) and biosecurity […]
As an island nation, Australia is already at an advantage in protecting our livestock from well-recognised but foreign pests and animal diseases. On top of that, we have a world class multi-faceted biosecurity system in place protecting our livestock from the inside-out. A vital part of this biosecurity system is the surveillance that we do […]
On Tuesday the 22 March, AHA brought together relevant industries to discuss Lumpy Skin Disease. Below is a short brief provided by Head of Program – AUSVETPLAN, Dr Peter Dagg. Aims of the meeting Awareness for relevant industries on the review process for the AUSVETPLAN Response strategy: Lumpy skin disease, and the next steps. A […]
Animal Health Australia is excited to bring you a fantastic array of activities for our first Member Engagement Week of 2022
Animal Health Australia is excited to bring you a fantastic array of activities for our first Member Engagement Week of 2022
The Australian Veterinary Emergency Plan otherwise known as AUSVETPLAN contains the nationally-agreed approach for the response to emergency animal disease (EAD) incidents in Australia. Animal Health Australia has been managing the development and review of the manuals listed under the AUSVETPLAN to ensure the documents not only look great but provide up-to-date and relevant information. […]
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