Biosecurity & quarantine

The Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia (DAFWA) works with primary industries to safeguard our agricultural resources from biological threats and to maintain our export opportunities.

The State’s reputation is underpinned by a comprehensive biosecurity and quarantine system, developed and operated by DAFWA.

DAFWA is involved with:

  • creation of surveillance and diagnostic programs
  • animal and plant risk assessments
  • importing and exporting requirements
  • creating mechanisms to respond to incursions
  • livestock movement and identification
  • development and maintenance of biosecurity and quarantine legislation.

To find out more about what we do to protect agricultural production and export opportunities within the State please search our website.

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  • Pig with reddened ears showing signs of African swine fever. Used with permission of the Pirbright Institute

    Emergency pig disease: African swine fever (ASF)

    4 July 2014

    African swine fever (ASF) is a highly contagious virus that causes an often fatal disease in pigs and wild boar.

  • Pig in shelter straw

    Emergency pig disease: classical swine fever (CSF)

    8 December 2014

    Classical swine fever (CSF), also known as hog cholera, is a highly contagious disease of pigs caused by a pestivirus. The disease only affects pigs and is exotic to Australia.

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    Poultry biosecurity checklist for small landholders

    2 December 2013

    The poultry biosecurity checklist summarises the actions needed to protect your poultry and the Western Australian poultry industry from the devastating effects of emergency diseases such as avian

  • Green iceplant in winter

    Slender iceplant poisoning in sheep

    4 December 2014

    Slender iceplant, Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum, is a small, succulent, winter-growing annual weed, most common in the eastern Wheatbelt.

  • A blood smear from a sheep with eperythrozoonosis. The large gaps between red cells indicate anaemia. The blue-stained organisms within the cells are M. ovis. Photo credit: Mark Bennett, Murdoch U

    Eperythrozoonosis (E. ovis) in sheep

    20 October 2014

    Eperythrozoonosis is a disease in sheep and goats caused by the bacterium mycoplasma ovis (formerly known as eperythrozoon ovis).

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    Grass tetany in beef cattle: prevention and treatment

    28 November 2013

    Grass tetany is a highly fatal disease associated with low levels of magnesium in the blood.

  • Pink eye in cattle

    15 December 2013

    Pink eye or infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis (IBK) is a common and contagious eye condition that affects cattle of all ages. It is most commonly seen in calves and young stock. 

  • ewe and lamb in paddock

    Mastitis in sheep

    3 December 2013

    Mastitis is the term for a bacterial infection of the udder. It is most common in ewes raising multiple lambs or with high milk production.

  • Chickens drinking

    Newcastle disease

    12 May 2014

    Newcastle disease is a severe viral disease of poultry and other birds.

  • Chickens

    Avian influenza

    9 December 2013

    Avian influenza is an infectious disease of birds caused by an influenza virus.

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