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Disease, means an impairment or the normal state or the living animal that interrupts or modifies the performance of the vital functions being a response to environmental factors (as malnutrition, industrial hazards, or climate) or to specific infective agents (as worms, bacteria, or viruses) or to inherent defects of the organism (as various genetic anomalies) or to combinations of these factors, State of Goa v. Colfox Laboratories Ltd., (2004) 9 SCC 83: AIR 2004 SC 45(50).

Means cattle plague or rinderpest, contagious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle, foot and mouth disease, sheep-pox, sheep scab or swine fever. Animal Health Act, 1981 (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 484, p. 247.