Its research includes work on foot and mouth disease and swine vesicular disease.

Swine vesicular disease came into the European Union, as did Newcastle Disease.

A complicating factor is the endemic spread of swine vesicular disease (SVD) in Taiwan.

Swine vesicular disease (SVD)

At the Institute for Animal Health, he was the Head of Experimental Epidemiology studying the pathogenesis and epidemiology of foot-and-mouth disease and swine vesicular disease.

Swine vesicular disease (SVD) is an acute, contagious viral disease of swine caused by the swine vesicular disease virus, an enterovirus.

Until the Diseases of Animals (Waste Food) Order 1973 - which was passed after a disastrous outbreak of swine vesicular disease - a farmer could feed a pig virtually anything a pig would eat.

There is no mortality with SWINE VESICULAR DISEASE VIRUS.

Vesicular Diseases - This Section provides testing services, technology development and research, training, and scientific consultation services for vesicular diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease, swine vesicular disease and vesicular stomatitis.

Designated notifiable diseases under the Diseases of Animals Act include anthrax, foot-and-mouth disease, fowl pest, bovine tuberculosis, BSE, scrapie, swine vesicular disease, Aujeszky's disease, bovine leukemia virus, rabies and warble fly.

Diseases and parasites that can afflict modern domestic pigs include foot-and-mouth disease, swine vesicular disease, swine fever, swine erysipelas, anthrax, enteritis, virus pneumonia, blue ear, stress-related oedema, Aujeszky's disease, Teschen disease, anaemia, arthritis, rheumatism, metritis, mastitis, roundworms, lungworms, mange and lice.