The Diseases of Animals Acts are a series of acts of Parliament of the UK to deal with the possibility of the accrual of economic harm or intra-species contamination. They follows on from the 19th-century series notation Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act. The act of 1884[which?] was designed to combat "heavy losses" due to cattle diseases such as rinderpest, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia and foot-and-mouth disease (FMD).[1]
The series was consolidated by the Diseases of Animals Act 1950.[2] The act of 1950 authorised the Ministry[clarification needed], when all other avenues of tuberculin prevention failed, to cull badgers,[3] and to halt the transportation of cattle from herds prone to FMD.[4] Apparently the definition of poultry needed to be extended in 1953, to include birds of the species psittaciformes, doves, peafowl and swans.[5] The series was stopped and continued by the Animal Health Act 1981 (c. 22).[6][7]
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