Home: Veterinary Services: ANIMAL HEALTH
State veterinarians assisted by animal health technicians at six state veterinary offices throughout the province, are responsible for surveillance, control and eradication of animal diseases.
Regular testing, monitoring and surveillance are conducted on livestock, ostriches, poultry and pet animals for diseases such as bovine tuberculosis, bovine Brucellosis, rabies and sheep scab and trade sensitive diseases such as foot and mouth disease and mad cow disease - see glossary for descriptions of and additional links about these diseases.
These actions play a major role to provide disease-free guarantees for exports of animals and animal products. The province exports more than 90% of the country’s ostrich meat and other products generated by the ostrich industry. An intensive surveillance for Newcastle disease and Avian influenza and a registration system on ostrich export farms is conducted in several of the state veterinary areas.
A serum data bank has been established to provide scientific evidence on the occurrence or absence of animal diseases. The province is free of the major trade-sensitive diseases such as foot and mouth disease and also has the only African horse sickness free zone in the country from where horses are accepted for export world-wide.
Read more:
- Glossary of animal diseases
- Disease information
