Specified Animal Pathogens Order 1998
Under the Specified Animal Pathogens Order 1998, a licence from Scottish Executive or the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) must be obtained before work with certain specified animal pathogens can begin.
NOTE: Any member of staff wishing to work with such organisms must contact the University Safety Adviser before they start work.
The organisms requiring such are licence are as follows:
Part 1 - Pathogens requiring 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
- Type A viruses which have an intrvenous 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 the 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
- Burkholdra (Pseudamonas) mallei
- Classical swine fever virus
- Cochliomyia hominivorax
- Cowdria ruminatum
- Eastern and Western equine encephalomyelitis viruses
- Echinococcus multicularis and E. granulosis
- 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 car capri
- Newcastle disease (avian paramyxovirus type 1) viruse which are
- uncharacterised;
- have intercerebral pathogenicity index in one day old chicks of 0.4 or more, when not less than 10 million 50% infectious doses (EID50) are administered to each bird in the test.
- Peste de petits ruminats virus
- Rabies virus and all viruses of the genus Lyssavirus
- Rift Valley Fever virus
- Rinderpest virus S
- heep 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 2 - Pathogens requiring a licence for introduction into an animal
- The live virus causing viral haemorrhagic disease of rabbits