So the suspect case at the Surrey Farm has been confirmed as a case of Foot and Mouth Disease. Movement restrictions have been put in place to try and control the infection and obviously the herd in question will be culled.
Let's hope this was spotted early enough and that there has been no transmission beyond the farm.
Reading the National Audit Office report on the lessons to be learned from the 2001 outbreak, we can only hope that the speed of response has been adequate (you can only start to respond once you are aware of the problem).
Working on the periphery of this, it seems a shame that the budgets to provide new support systems for such outbreaks are currently threatened.
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