National Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Surveillance Program (NTSESP) in the Northern Territory To ensure that Australia is eligible to export Behavioural Neurological cattle and meat to a number of overseas apprehension abnormal ear position markets we must that we are free from • • Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies changes in herd abnormal head • • (TSEs). To do this it is essential that samples hierarchical status carriage from cattle and sheep from all areas of Australia are tested as part of our National TSE excessive nose and flank altered consciousness • • Surveillance Program (NTSESP). licking ataxia • Therefore it is essential for DPIF to test cattle excitability • from regions in the NT and so we need blindness • producers to notify us of eligible There is a frenzy • subsidy for participating in the program. circling • head rubbing or pressing • TSEs are fatal diseases that affect brain and falling • central nervous system tissues. Bovine head shyness • Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) is the form fetlock knuckling • hesitation at doors, gates, associated with cattle and is commonly referred • barriers hyperaesthesia to as Cow’ disease. Scrapie is the form • ‘Mad touch) found in sheep and goats. Neither exist in persistent kicking when • Australia. milked hypo aesthesia • touch) Payment teeth grinding • moribund without • Producers are provided with a payment for all evidence of infection eligible cases. The current payment rate for cattle submissions is $300. or trauma Eligibility paralysis/paresis • Cattle are eligible if they are: recumbency • tremor Older than 30 months and younger than • nine years Sampling Display one or more of the clinical associated with BSE The crucial samples are the brain and 2-3 cm of Clinical Signs spinal cord. If the brain is damaged during removal, the animal will not be suitable for Clinical signs associate with BSE are as follows: submission. Further samples include bloods and pieces of the animals’ organs (i.e. lung, heart, liver, kidney and spleen). More Information For more information on the NTSESP, please to Animal Health Australia’s National TSE Surveillance page () To report an animal with clinical signs consistent with those associated with BSE please contact your local Livestock Biosecurity Officer, regional Veterinarian or private Veterinarian
National Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Surveillance Program (NTSESP) in the Northern Territory To ensure that Australia is eligible to export cattle and meat to a number of overseas markets we must that we are free from Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs). To do this it is essential that samples from cattle and sheep from all areas of Australia are tested as part of our National TSE Surveillance Program (NTSESP). Therefore it is essential for DPIF to test cattle from regions in the NT and so we need producers to notify us of eligible There is a subsidy for participating in the program. TSEs are fatal diseases that affect brain and central nervous system tissues. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) is the form associated with cattle and is commonly referred to as ‘Mad Cow’ disease. Scrapie is the form found in sheep and goats. Neither exist in Australia. Payment Producers are provided with a payment for all eligible cases. The current payment rate for cattle submissions is $300. Eligibility Cattle are eligible if they are: Older than 30 months and younger than nine years Display one or more of the clinical associated with BSE Clinical Signs Clinical signs associate with BSE are as follows: Behavioural • apprehension • changes in herd hierarchical status • excessive nose and flank licking • excitability • frenzy • head rubbing or pressing • head shyness • hesitation at doors, gates, barriers • persistent kicking when milked • teeth grinding Neurological • abnormal ear position • abnormal head carriage • altered consciousness • ataxia • blindness • circling • falling • fetlock knuckling • hyperaesthesia touch) • hypo aesthesia touch) • moribund without evidence of infection or trauma • paralysis/paresis • recumbency • tremor Sampling The crucial samples are the brain and 2-3 cm of spinal cord. If the brain is damaged during removal, the animal will not be suitable for submission. Further samples include bloods and pieces of the animals’ organs (i.e. lung, heart, liver, kidney and spleen). More Information For more information on the NTSESP, please to Animal Health Australia’s National TSE Surveillance page () To report an animal with clinical signs consistent with those associated with BSE please contact your local Livestock Biosecurity Officer, regional Veterinarian or private Veterinarian
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