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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