The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom in 2001 caused a crisis in British agriculture and tourism. This epizootic saw 2,000 cases of the disease on farms across most of the Briti
Slaughtered animals being incinerated on a farm
Notice telling people to keep off the North York Moors in April 2001
A government notice on a quarantined Oxfordshire farm
A disinfectant bath used to disinfect the wheels of vehicles to try to stop spread.
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2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak
…to inform the authorities of a notifiable disease and banned from keeping farm animals for 15 years. He was later found guilty of feeding his pigs "untreated waste". On 24 February, a case was announced in Highampton in Devon. Later in the week, cases were found in North Wales. By the beginning of March, the disease…
Poster for pig swill for auction sale, London, 1877