Prior to his arrival on the scene, scrapie had seemed to be an animal disease with no implications for human health.
It is sometimes thought of as an animal disease.
"We're truly dealing with a foreign animal disease that remains very unclear to all of us still."
Rinderpest became the first animal disease to be eliminated worldwide.
Rabies is a deadly animal disease caused by a virus.
His business was to treat and prevent animal disease.
Serious animal diseases have thus been able to spread.
The same applies to a major epidemic of a commercially important animal disease such as foot and mouth.
The current world situation regarding infectious animal diseases is very worrying.
What should happen when infectious animal diseases break out?