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 22-23 November 2014 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The report discusses emerging disease problems and regional response including to:

• Finfish diseases: Streptococcus agalactiae, Francisella sp., Tenacibaculum sp., S. iniae, mycobacteria and Vibrio spp., Aeromonas hydrophila, viral nervous necrosis.
• Crustacean diseases: Whitespot syndrome virus, yellowhead virus type-1 and type-8, covert mortality nodavirus, infectious myonecrosis virus, taura syndrome virus, infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis virus, abdominal segment deformity disease, Laem-Singh virus, hepatopancreatic parvovirus, monodon baculovirus, acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei.
• Mollusc and amphibian diseases: A summary of recent mollusc disease events was presented in tabular format.

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, 2014.
• 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.