Foot and mouth disease (aphthae epizooticae) is an infectious disease that affects cloven-hoofed animals. Since 1967, Britain had been free of the disease, until an outbreak was detected on 19 February 2001 in pigs from Buckinghamshire and the Isle of Wight. The epidemic lasted until October, in which time over six million cows and sheep were killed, costing the U.K. an estimated £8 billion.
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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Foot-and-mouth epidemic
The first memorial was obviously sinking into the ground when our photo...
The first memorial was obviously sinking into the ground when our...
Andrew Behan has researched this woman: She was born Caroline Jasmine Hay on 8 January 1958. In 1980 she married Nigel Aylmer James Harold Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick and on 8 April 1981 their son, Nei...
3,470 prisoners were taken, men women and children, and it was decided that they should all be tried in England. Seven ships carried them from Inverness on 10 June 1746. Their destinies were vari...
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
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