Australia has a global reputation for having an animal disease-free status
Australia is internationally recognised as being free from major epidemic cattle and sheep diseases.
Australia has an internationally recognised status of being free from all major epidemic diseases of sheep and cattle includingfFoot and mouthddisease (FMD), lumpy skin disease (LSD), scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) that are prevalent in many other areas of the world.