This report provides a review of current knowledge concerning salmonellosis and inanition as causes of mortality in live export sheep, and the potential associations between mortality and farm-level risk factors.

There have been difficulties in investigating farm-level risk factors for mortality in export sheep, and the report identifies several activities aimed at developing the capacity to monitor, investigate and improve health and welfare outcomes in export sheep.

These include the development of an integrated industry approach to ongoing monitoring and surveillance of mortality (and morbidity), methods to investigate inappetence and behaviour in export sheep, vaccination of sheep against Salmonella and the use of a risk framework to identify interventions or minimise the risk of inanition and salmonellosis.