FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM / NORTHERN IRELAND
Follow-up report No. 2
See also: 20 April 2001, 9 March 2001
Text of a fax received on 27 April 2001 from Dr J.M. Scudamore, Chief Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, London:
End of previous report period: 17 April 2001 (see Disease Information, 14 [16], 89, dated 20 April 2001).
End of this report period: 27 April 2001.
New outbreaks:
Location No. of outbreaks County Tyrone 1
Total number of animals in the new outbreak:
species susceptible cases deaths destroyed slaughtered bov 128 2 0 128 0
Laboratory where diagnosis was confirmed: the diagnosis was confirmed on 22 April 2001 by the Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright, Surrey (OIE World Reference Laboratory for foot and mouth disease).
Epidemiology:
A. Source of agent / origin of infection: local spread from outbreak No. NI/02 (County Tyrone).
B. Mode of spread: investigations ongoing.
Control measures: stamping-out policy; control programme covering the whole of Northern Ireland. No change to the 3-km and 10-km zones already in place around the outbreaks. Slaughter of all animals of susceptible species on associated premises and premises within 1 km of the infected premises.
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FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM / GREAT BRITAIN
Follow-up report No. 9
See also: 27 April 2001, 20 April 2001, 13 April 2001, 6 April 2001, 30 March 2001, 23 March 2001, 16 March 2001, 2 March 2001, 23 February 2001
Summary of data received up to 2 May 2001 from Dr J.M. Scudamore, Chief Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, London:
End of previous report period: 24 April 2001 (see Disease Information, 14 [17], 99, dated 27 April 2001).
End of this report period: 1 May 2001.
Number of new outbreaks: 64.
Total number of outbreaks confirmed since the beginning of the epizootic: 1,525.
Total number of animals slaughtered and destroyed (or awaiting destruction) in the outbreaks confirmed since the beginning of the epizootic:
species number bov 415,000 ovi 1,855,000 cap 2,000 sui 110,000
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