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A-Z of diseases
The main diseases we are primarily concerned with are as follows.
For general information about types of diseases see notifiable diseases or zoonotic diseases.
| Disease | Main species affected |
| African Horse Sickness | Horses |
| African swine fever | Pigs |
| Bird flu (avian Influenza) | Poultry |
| Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy | Cattle |
| Bovine TB (tuberculosis) | Cattle and deer |
| Bluetongue | All ruminants and camelids |
| Classical swine fever | Pigs |
| Contagious Equine Metritis | Horses |
| Equine Infectious Anaemia | Horses |
| Equine Viral Arteritis | Horses |
| European Bat Lyssavirus (EBLV) | Bats |
| Foot and Mouth Disease | Cattle, sheep, pigs, other cloven hoofed animals |
| Newcastle Disease | Poultry |
| Rabies (Classical) | Dogs and other mammals |
| Salmonella | |
| Schmallenberg virus | Cattle, sheep and goats |
Other diseases
Information about the following diseases is currently available on Defra’s archive website:
| Notifiable Disease | Main species affected |
| Anthrax | Cattle and other mammals |
| Aujeszky’s Disease | Pigs and other mammals |
| Brucellosis (Brucella abortus) | Cattle |
| Brucellosis (Brucella melitensis) | Sheep and Goats |
| Contagious agalactia | Sheep and Goats |
| Contagious bovine pleuro-pneumonia | Cattle |
| Contagious epididymitis (Brucella ovis) | Sheep and Goats |
| Dourine | Horses |
| Enzootic bovine leukosis | Cattle |
| Epizootic haemorrhagic virus disease | Deer |
| Epizootic lymphangitis | Horses |
| Equine viral encephalomyelitis | Horses |
| Glanders and Farcy | Horses |
| Goat pox | Goats |
| Lumpy skin disease | Cattle |
| Paramyxovirus of pigeons | Pigeons |
| Pest des petits ruminants | Sheep and Goats |
| Rift valley fever | Cattle, Sheep and Goats |
| Rinderpest (cattle plague) | Cattle |
| Scrapie (part of Defra’s archive BSE pages) | Sheep and goats |
| Sheep pox | Sheep |
| Swine vesicular disease | Pigs |
| Teschen disease (Porcine enterovirus encephalomyelitis) | Pigs |
| Vesicular stomatitis | Cattle, pigs and horses |
| Warble fly | Cattle, (also deer and horses) |
| West Nile virus | Horses |