Suspected case of foot-and-mouth

by liamssoft | September 12, 2007 at 04:01 am

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UPDATE 13 September 2007; Initial tests suggest the latest foot-and-mouth outbreak in Surrey is the same strain found in the area last month which originated from the Pitbright laboratory..

A suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease has been discovered in the same county as the UK's last outbreak.

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.

The EU has halted plans to lift the export ban on livestock products from the area around the original outbreak.

A report into the August outbreak blamed a leaking pipe at the Pirbright animal research site in Surrey.