Infers we’ve cracked this animal disease (5,5)

I believe the answer is:

swine fever

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'animal disease' is the definition.
'swine fever' can be an answer for 'disease' (I have seen 'Disease of pigs ' mean 'swine fever' so perhaps 'disease' could also mean 'swine fever'). I'm not certain of the 'animal' bit.

'infers we've cracked' is the wordplay.
'cracked' indicates an anagram.
'infers'+'weve'='infersweve'
'infersweve' is an anagram of 'SWINE-FEVER'.

'this' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for swine fever that I've seen before include "Viral disease of pigs" , "Porker's complaint" , "beastly complaint" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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