Specified Animal Pathogens Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 No. 434

Articles 2 and 4

SCHEDULE Specified Animal Pathogens

Part I Pathogens Requiring a Licence for Possession or Introduction into an Animal

• African horse sickness virus.

• African swine fever virus.

• Avian influenza viruses which are—

  (a)

  uncharacterised; or

  (b)

  Type A viruses which have an intravenous pathogenicity index in six week old chickens of greater than 1.2; or

  (c)

  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.

• Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia virus.

• Cowdria ruminantium.

• Eastern and Western equine encephalomyelitis viruses.

• Echinococcus multilocularis and E. granulosis.

• Equine infectious anaemia virus.

• Equine morbillivirus.

• Foot and mouth disease virus.

• Fowl plague virus.

• Histoplasma farciminosum.

• Hog cholera virus.

• Japanese encephalitis virus.

• Lumpy skin disease virus.

• Maedi-Visna.

• 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—

  (a)

  uncharacterised; or

  (b)

  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 (EID50) are administered to each bird in the test.

• Peste des 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.

Part II Pathogen requiring a licence for introduction into an animal

The live virus causing viral haemorrhagic disease of rabbits.