The Asia Regional Advisory Group on Aquatic Animal Health meets annually to discuss regional disease issues including emerging disease threats. This is the report of the seventh meeting, held 8-10 November 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand. The report discusses emerging disease problems and regional response including to:

• Finfish diseases: Edwardsiella ictaluri, Flavobacterium columnare, Streptococcus agalactiae, Francisella spp., Vibrio spp., Tenacibaculum maritimum, S. iniae, S. agalactiae, iridoviruses, nodaviruses.
• Crustacean diseases: Whitespot syndrome virus, yellowhead virus, taura syndrome virus, infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis virus, Penaeus vannamei nodavirus, Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus, abdominal segment deformity disease, Laem-Singh necrosis virus, 
• Mollusc diseases: Abalone ganglioneuritis.
• Amphibian diseases: Ranaviruses, megalocytiviruses and lymphocystiviruses.

Other issues discussed included:

• Progress of NACA's Aquatic Animal Health Programme.
• Outcomes of the OIE General Session and Aquatic Animal Health Standards Commission meetings, 2010.
• Disease reporting, including changes to the OIE list of notifiable diseases and establishment of a global online reporting system (WAHIS) by OIE.
• Review of the Quarterly Aquatic Animal Disease Reporting System.
• Progress in implementation of the the Regional Technical Guidelines on Health management for the Responsible Movement of Live Aquatic Animals.
• Identification and designation of regional aquatic animal health resources, including experts, centres and reference laboratories.
• Regional and international cooperation.