Section 2(2) in Bengal Diseases of Animals Act, 1944
(2)"contagious disease" means rinderpest (that is to say, the disease commonly known as cattle plague), anthrax, hemorrhagic septicaemia, [foot-and-mouth disease, rabies, avian influenza (that is to say, the disease commonly known as bird flu)] and includes such other diseases as may be declared by the [State] Government by notification in Official Gazette to the contagious diseases for the purposes of this Act;
