This list of key animal diseases is taken from the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) web site and provides a gateway to information on various animal diseases in particular those which affect farm livestock. The A to Z list below will take you to pages which include the following information:

  • description of the disease
  • its clinical signs within the species
  • any work carried out by AHVLA
  • links to other websites

The A-Z disease list also includes information on causative agents such as bacterial and chemical contamination that may lead to diseases such as salmonellosis and lead poisoning.


A 

Abortion in cattle

Abortion in sheep

Anthrax

Aujeszky’s disease

Avian influenza

Avian encephalitic listeriosis (in poultry)

Avian intestinal spirochaetosis


B 

Bleeding calf syndrome

Bluetongue

Botulism

Bovine besnoitiosis

Bovine neonatal pancytopaenia

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)

Bovine tuberculosis

Bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD)

Bracken poisoning

Brucella abortus

Brucella melitensis


C 

Caseous lymphadenitis (CLA)

Cattle diseases

Chronic wasting disease

Classical swine fever

Cobalt deficiencies in sheep

Coccidiosis in cattle

Coccidiosis in sheep

Copper deficiencies in sheep

Contagious equine metritis (CEM)

Copper toxicity

Coryza (infectious)


D 

Derzsy’s disease

Diarrhoea in cattle


E 

Eggshell apex abnormalities

Emerging diseases

Encephalitic listeriosis (in poultry)

Enzootic bovine leukosis

Epidemiology, Surveillance and Risk

Equine infectious anaemia

Equine viral arteritis

Equine West Nile virus

Escherichia coli


F 

Fasciolosis

Foot and mouth disease

Fowl typhoid


G 

Glanders

Goose parvovirus (GPV)


H 

Haemonchosis

Histomonosis (blackhead)


I 

Idiopathic haemorrhagic diathesis of calves

Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis

Infectious bronchitis

Infectious coryza

Influenza: avian

Intestinal spirochaetosis (avian)


J 

Johne’s disease


K 

Klebsiella septicaemia


L 

Lead poisoning

Leptospirosis

Listeriosis (encephalitic in poultry)

Liver fluke

Lungworm in cattle


M 

Mycobacterium bovis

Mycoplasmosis


N 

Newcastle disease

Non-notifiable diseases

Notifiable diseases


O 


P 

Paratuberculosis

Periweaning failure to thrive syndrome (PFTS) in pigs

Poisoning

Porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus

Pregnancy – sheep

Psoroptic mange


Q 

Q fever


R 

Rabies

Risk analysis

Rumen fluke – Paramphistomes


S 

Salmonella[1]

Salmonella Gallinarum

Schmallenberg virus

Scrapie

Selenium and vitamin E deficiencies

Sheep diseases

Spotty Liver syndrome

Swine influenza


T 

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs)

Trichinella in feral wild boar

Tuberculosis: bovine


U 


V 


W 

West Nile virus

Wormer resistance


X 


Y 


Z 

Zoonotic diseases