The government has set up a 10km (6.2 mile) control zone centred on the affected site near Egham, Surrey, and a pre-emptive slaughter has been ordered.
DEFRA has confirmed that foot and mouth disease movement restrictions will be lifted outside the Risk Area on Wednesday 15 October in parallel with the lifting of the foot and mouth protection zone in Surrey.
The EU export ban on British meat which has cost farmers £1m a week since it was imposed after the foot and mouth outbreak is to be lifted this weekend.
It has been agreed this morning [23 Aug 2007] that live animals and meat products can be exported from outside of the Surveillance Zone in Surrey, from Sat 25 Aug 2007, to the rest of the European Union, with additional veterinary supervision and ce
Two journalists covering the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Surrey have been arrested after breaching a cordon inside a protected zone close to Wanborough. The two freelance male journalists were charged under Section 27 of the Animal Health Act an
In the report into last months FMD outbreak in Surrey, Professor Brian Spratt of Imperial College London, noted that foot and mouth virus could survive in slurry for six months, on hay or straw for 20 weeks, and in water up to 50 days.
Flooding is being examined as a possible cause of the foot and mouth disease outbreak, the Government's chief veterinary officer Debby Reynolds said today. Inspectors fear that the infected animals may have contracted the virus through flood water at thei
The strain of foot-and-mouth disease found at a Surrey farm has been identified, Defra has said. The strain in infected cattle (an O1 BFS67-like virus, isolated in the 1967 foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Great Britain) is identical to that used for va
World Cup organisers are keeping an anxious eye on the growing foot-and-mouth crisis in Britain with fears that it could disrupt rugby's glamour event in the same way a similar problem hit the 2001 Six Nations championship.