The Diseases of Animals Act is a series of acts of

Parliament of the UK The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the Parliamentary sovereignty in the United Kingdom, supreme Legislature, legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of We ...

to deal with the possibility of the accrual of economic harm or intra-species contamination. It follows on from the 19th-century series notation Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act. The Act of 1884 was designed to combat "heavy losses" due to cattle diseases such as

rinderpest Rinderpest (also cattle plague or steppe murrain) was an infectious viral disease of cattle, domestic buffalo, and many other species of even-toed ungulates, including gaurs, buffaloes, large antelope, deer, giraffes, wildebeests, and warthogs ...

, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia and

foot-and-mouth disease Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) or hoof-and-mouth disease (HMD) is an infectious and sometimes fatal viral disease that affects cloven-hoofed animals, including domestic and wild bovids. The virus causes a high fever lasting two to six days, followe ...

(FMD). The series was consolidated by the Act of 1950. The Act of 1950 authorised the Ministry, when all other avenues of tuberculin prevention failed, to cull badgers, and to halt the transportation of cattle from herds prone to FMD. Apparently the definition of

poultry Poultry () are domesticated birds kept by humans for their eggs, their meat or their feathers. These birds are most typically members of the superorder Galloanserae (fowl), especially the order Galliformes (which includes chickens, quails, a ...

needed to be extended in 1953, to include birds of the species psittaciformes, doves, peafowl and

swan Swans are birds of the family (biology), family Anatidae within the genus ''Cygnus''. The swans' closest relatives include the goose, geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form t ...

s. The series was stopped and continued by the

Animal Health Act 1981 The Animal Health Act 1981 is a piece of UK legislation that provides powers for the control of outbreaks of avian influenza and Newcastle disease. These powers were extended by a statutory instrument. It was amended by the Animal Health and Wel ...

. * Diseases of Animals Act 1894 * Diseases of Animals Act 1896 * Diseases of Animals Act 1903 * Diseases of Animals Act 1909 *

Diseases of Animals Act 1910 A disease is a particular abnormal condition that negatively affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism, and that is not immediately due to any external injury. Diseases are often known to be medical conditions that ar ...

* Diseases of Animals (Ireland) Act 1914 * Diseases of Animals Act 1922 * Diseases of Animals Act 1924 * Diseases of Animals Act 1925 * Diseases of Animals Act 1927 * Diseases of Animals Act 1935 * Diseases of Animals Act 1950 * Diseases of Animals Act 1975

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Animal viral diseases Animal virology History of agriculture in the United Kingdom Agricultural health and safety Food law {{UK-law-stub

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