The Specified Animal Pathogens Amendment (Scotland) Order 2007 No. 30

Article 2(4)

SCHEDULE Schedule to be substituted for the Schedule to the Specified Animal Pathogens Order 1998

Articles 3 and 4

“SCHEDULE Specified animal pathogens

PART 1 Pathogens the possession of which or the introduction of which into any animal must be licensed

• African horse sickness virus

• African swine fever virus

• Aujeszky’s disease 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

• Burkholderia mallei

• Classical swine fever virus

• Cochliomyia hominivorax

• Ehrlichia ruminatum

• Eastern and Western equine encephalomyelitis viruses

• Echinococcus multilocularis and E. granulosis

• Equine infectious anaemia virus

• Foot and mouth disease virus

• Hendra disease virus

• Histoplasma farciminosum

• Japanese encephalitis virus

• Lumpy skin disease virus

• Mycoplasma agalactiae

• Mycoplasma capricolum sub species capripneumoniae

• Mycroplasma 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 intercerebral 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

• Nipah disease virus

• Peste des petits ruminants virus

• Rabies virus and all viruses of the genus Lyssavirus

• Rift Valley Fever virus

• Rinderpest virus

• St Louis equine encephalomyelitis virus

• Sheep and goat pox virus

• Swine vesicular disease virus

• Teschen disease virus

• Theileria annulata

• Theileria equi

• Theileria parva

• Trichinella spiralis

• Trypanosoma brucei, T. congolense, T. equiperdum, T. evansi, T. simiae and T. vivax

• Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis virus

• Vesicular stomatitis virus

• West Nile virus

PART 2 Pathogens the introdution of which into any animal must be licensed but possession of which need not be licensed

The live virus causing viral haemorrhagic disease of rabbits”