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