2019 National Saleyards Conference. Roma.

Emergency Animal Disease Response Agreement and your role in an Emergency Animal Disease.

OUTLINE

• Emergency animal disease (EAD) control in Australia – a snapshot

• Animal Health Australia – who are we?• The EADRA, AUSVETPLAN and EAD

training – how they fit together• Normal commitments• What happens in a major response• The complexity of a response

EADRA

AUSVETPLAN

EAD Training

EAD CONTROL IN AUSTRALIA• essentially a state

government responsibility under jurisdictional legislation

• Commonwealth responsible for international borders and trade

• effective through partnerships between governments and industries, at national, regional and local levels

Animal Health Australia

• A not-for-profit public company established by government and livestock industries to provide for partnership arrangements in the funding and management of animal health programs

• Incorporated in 1996• 32 Members in four categories:

o Australian Government, state and territory governmentso Livestock industry organisations o Service providerso Associate members.

Mission

To assist our Members and partners to enhance, strengthen and protect animal health and the sustainability of Australia’s livestock industries.

What AHA does

• AHA manages a suite of animal health projects on behalf of its members• One of the strategic priorities:

o Effectively manage and strengthen Australia’s emergency animal disease (EAD) response arrangements through successful partnerships with Members

• Emergency Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Service Stream:o EAD Response Agreement (EADRA)o AUSVETPLAN including operational manuals o EAD Trainingo Vaccine bankso R&D projects.

What is the EADRA?

• The Emergency Animal Disease Response Agreement (EADRA) is a formal, legally binding agreement (‘Deed’) between AHA, the Australian government, all state and territory governments, and thirteen livestock industry signatories (“Parties”).

• covers the management and funding of responses to EAD incidents• ratified in March 2002, and used in real and simulated responses

• AHA is the ‘custodian’ of the Deed.

Parties to the EADRA

• the Commonwealth and all States and Territories

• Animal Health Australia • industry associations or

other industry entities

EADRA: agreed approaches• participation and cooperation

o Parties that fund a response to an EAD have a role in decision making about the response and its funding

• risk managemento biosecurity plans are required from all

Parties

• detection and responseo financial incentives for immediate

reporting -> swift response

• training

• cost sharing.

Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Category 4 Category 4 ContinuedAustralia bat lyssavirus Avian Influenza (HP- H5 ,

H7)African horse sickness Aujesky’s disease Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome

(PRRS)

Japanese encephalitis Bovine Spongiformencephalopathy

African swine fever Borna disease Potomac fever

Nipah Virus Brucellosis (abortus and melitensis)

Anthrax (major outbreaks) Bovine tuberculoisis (Nyxobacterium bovis) Pulmonary adenomatosis

Rabies Foot and Mouth Avian Influenza (high pathogenic –other than H5,H7)

Contagious equine metritis Sheep scab

Western, Eastern and Venezualian equine encephalomyelitis

Glanders Avian Influenza (low pathogenic –subtype H5,H7)

Dourine Surra

Hendra Virus Bluetounge East coast fever Influenza A virus of swine

Peste des petits ruminants

Classic swine fever Epizootic lymphangitis Teschen disease

Rift Valley fever Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia Equine babesiosis Transmissible gastroenteritis

Rinderpest Encephalitides (tick-borne) Equine encephalosis Wesselsbron disease

Screw worm fly Lumpy skin disease Equine influenza

Sheep and goat pox Menangle virus (porcineparamyxovirus)

Getah virus

Vesicular stomatitis Newcastle disease Haemorrhagic septicaemia

Scrapie Heartwater

Swine vesicular disease Infectious bursal disease

Trichinellosis Jembrana disease

Vesicular exantherma Maedi-visna

Nairobi sheep disease

Porcine epidemic diarrhoea

Other interesting concepts

• Whole of Government• It is the governments, not their agricultural agencies, that

are Parties to the Agreement.

• Normal Commitments• Cost sharing only applies to costs beyond a Party’s normal

resource capability.

• Cost Sharing, not Cost Shifting• The EADRA is not intended to transfer the cost of the

provision of governments’ constitutional obligations to industry.

AUSVETPLAN documents

• Overview document• Disease-specific response strategies and response policy briefs• Operational and management manuals• Enterprise manuals• Resource and guidance documents

EAD Training

• EAD training is facilitated or delivered by • The Australian government• State and territory governments• Industry bodies• Scientific and academic organisations• Veterinary associations• Animal Health Australia

• Animal Health Australia is a comparatively small player and primarily provides training services to its members to help them meet their obligations under the EADRA.

EAD Training

• CCEAD training• NMG training• SCC Liaison – Livestock industry• LCC Liaison – Livestock industry

• AUSVETPLAN • tells us how to respond to an EAD (e.g. stamping-out, movement controls,

vaccination, etc.)

• EADRA • provides for participatory decision making and determines who pays how

much for the response

• Training• ensures the people who are involved are ‘fit for purpose’.

In summary…..

“working together for animal health”

Normal commitments• Those activities and resources that state and territory governments

and industry consider to be ‘normal’ and part of business as usual• There is an obligation under the EADRA to maintain and supply the

normal commitments to provide for both preparedness and for responding to an EAD

• All Parties to the EADRA have provided a detailed description of their normal commitments which have been agreed by other Parties and documented in a Guidance Document on normal commitments

https://www.animalhealthaustralia.com.au/training/emergency-animal-disease-training/guidance-documents/Normal commitments are not cost shared under the EADRA

What happens in a major response?

WHAT HAPPENS IN A MAJOR EAD EVENT

SOMEONE (E.G. FARMER) NOTICES UNUSUAL DISEASE SIGNS, INCREASED MORTALITY, ETC.

1. Call to private vet (or EAD hotline – 1800 675 888)

2. Investigating government vet suspects an emergency animal disease (EAD)

3. Notifies State Veterinary Officer (CVO)

5. Upon strong suspicion, State CVO notifies the Commonwealth CVO6b. Combat state CVO

submits an EAD Response Plan in time for the teleconference

6a. Commonwealth CVO calls a teleconference of all CVOs, representatives of affected industries as well as the Australian Animal Health Laboratory (“CCEAD”)

4. State CVO initiates formal investigation

7. CCEAD

8a. Considers situation reports and laboratory results available at that stage

8b. Confirms the tentative diagnosis

8d. Determines whether the EAD is eradicable

8c. Considers the proposed EAD Response Plan and its budget based on AUSVETPLAN

9. CCEAD recommends acceptance of the EAD Response Plan to NMG (National Management Group, essentially departmental and industry CEOs)

10. Based on advice by CCEAD, NMG approves the EAD Response Plan and through this activates pre-agreed cost-sharing (EADRA)

11. Response gets underway with funding assured

The complexity of rolling out an EAD response

National Standstill vs EADRAWhat is the difference?

• FMD is the only disease that would automatically trigger a National Standstill

• EADs and National Standstills are administered under jurisdictional legislation

• Calling a national standstill has market and trade implications • National standstills are not automatic in an emergency disease

response

Where would Sale yards fit in?

• Congregation points • Critical to disease containment • Information holders • Decision makers • Normal commitments • Communications

Snap shot of S.E Queensland livestock movements

Collected for Exercise Odysseus 2014.Focused on saleyards and abattoirs with 4 hours of Jandowae – IP location for exercise.

Saleyards•10 saleyards within 4 hours travel of Jandowae:

Animals per week:~19,500 cattle~2,000 sheep

Feedlots•~ 504,000 cattle in Queensland feedlots (Sept ’13)

~ 250,000 on the Darling DownsAbattoirs•13 abattoirs within 4 hours travel of Jandowae:

Processing per day:~10,670 cattle~4,000 pigsIn~1,100 sheep Source: Biosecurity Queensland

Source: Biosecurity Queensland

Source: Biosecurity Queensland

Source: Biosecurity Queensland

Source: Biosecurity Queensland

Source: Biosecurity Queensland

Source: Biosecurity Queensland

Source: Biosecurity Queensland

Week in total

• 980 PIC’s of origin.• Including 21 NSW PIC’s of origin.

• 23,640 head of cattle sold.• 422 destination PIC’s.

• Including 36 NSW PIC’s and 2 VIC PIC’s.

Source: Biosecurity Queensland

How can we prepare?

• Biosecurity planning • Training

Training

Questions ?

Rachael O’Brien – 0418 7224 61