Specified Animal Pathogens
The following animal pathogens are those that require a licence for possession or introduction into an animal:
- African horse sickness virus;
- African swine fever virus;
- Aujeszky's disease virus;
- Avian influenza viruses which are:
- Uncharacterised; or
- Type A viruses with an intravenous pathogenicity index in 6 week old chickens of greater than 1.2; or
- Type A viruses H5 or H7 subtype for which nucleotide sequencing has demonstrated multiple basic amino acids at the cleavage site of haemagglutinin.- Babesia bovis, B. bigemina, B. caballi and B. equi;
- Bacillus anthracis;
- Bluetongue virus;
- Bovine leukosis virus;
- Brucella abortus;
- Brucella melitensis;
- Brucella ovis;
- Brucella suis;
- Burkholdaria (Pseudomonas) mallei;
- Classical swine fever virus;
- Cochliomyia hominivorax;
- Cowdria ruminatum;
- Eastern and Western equine encephalomyelitis viruses;
- Echinococcus multilocularis and E. granulosus;
- Equine infectious anaemia virus;
- Equine morbillivirus;
- Foot and mouth disease virus;
- Histoplasma farciminosum;
- Japanese encephalitis virus;
- Lumpy skin disease virus;
- Mycoplasma agalactiae;
- Mycoplasma capricolum sub species capripneumoniae;
- Mycoplasma mycoides sub species mycoides SC and mycoides LC variants;
- Mycoplasma mycoides var capri;
- Newcastle disease (avian paramyxovirus type 1) viruses which are:
- Uncharacterised; or
- Have an intracerebral pathogenicity index in one day old chicks of 0.4 or more, when not less than 10 million 50% egg infectious doses (E1D 50) are administered to each bird in the test;
- Peste de petits ruminants virus;
- Rabies virus and all viruses of the genus Lyssavirus;
- Rift Valley Fever virus;
- Rinderpest virus;
- Sheep and goat pox virus;
- Swine vesicular disease;
- Teschen disease virus;
- Theileria annulata;
- Theileria parva;
- Trichinella spiralis;
- Trypanosoma brucei, T. congolense, T. equiperdum, T. evansi, T. simiae and T. vivax;
- Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis virus;
- Vesicular stomatitis virus;
- The live virus causing viral haemorrhagic disease of rabbits (licence required for introduction into an animal only).
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