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Notifiable Diseases

Notifiable Diseases

A notifiable disease is a disease named in section 88 of the Animal Health Act 1981 or an Order made under that Act.

If you suspect signs of any of the notifiable diseases in the table below, you must immediately notify your Divisional Veterinary Manager.

Clicking on the disease names will take you to the Defra website ( www.defra.gov.uk/index.htm) for further information.

List of notifiable disease and year of last occurrence in Great Britain

Notifiable disease

Species affected

Last occurred in GB

African Horse Sickness

Horses

Never

African Swine Fever

Pigs

Never

Anthrax

Cattle and other mammals

Present

Aujeszky's Disease

Pigs and other mammals

1989

Avian Influenza (Fowl plague)

Poultry

Present

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

Cattle

Present

Bluetongue

Cattle, Sheep and Goats

Present

Brucellosis (Brucella abortus)

Cattle

2004

Brucellosis (Brucella melitensis)

Sheep and Goats

1956

Classical Swine Fever

Pigs

2000

Contagious agalactia

Sheep and Goats

Never

Contagious Bovine Pleuro-pneumonia

Cattle

1898

Contagious Epididymitis (Brucella ovis)

Sheep and GoatsNever

Contagious Equine Metritis

Horses2007

Dourine

HorsesNever

Enzootic Bovine Leukosis

Cattle1996

Epizootic Haemorrhagic Virus Disease

DeerNever

Epizootic Lymphangitis

Horses1906

Equine Viral Arteritis

Horses2004

Equine Viral Encephalomyelitis

HorsesNever

Equine Infectious Anaemia

Horses1976

Foot and Mouth Disease

Cattle, sheep, pigs and other cloven hoofed animals2007

Glanders and Farcy

Horses1928

Goat Pox

GoatsNever

Lumpy Skin Disease

CattleNever

Newcastle Disease

Poultry2006

Paramyxovirus of pigeons

PigeonsPresent

Peste des Petits Ruminants

Sheep and GoatsNever

Rabies

Dogs and other mammals2006

Rift Valley Fever

Cattle, Sheep and GoatsNever

Rinderpest (Cattle Plague)

Cattle1877

Scrapie

Sheep and goatsPresent

Sheep Pox

Sheep1866

Swine Vesicular Disease

Pigs1982

Teschen Disease (Porcine enterovirus encephalomyelitis)

PigsNever

Tuberculosis (Bovine TB)

Cattle and deerPresent

Vesicular Stomatitis

Cattle, pigs and horses

Never

Warble fly

Cattle, (also deer and horses)

1990

West Nile VirusHorsesNever

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