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Foot and Mouth outbreak - Map

Late on Friday night, the news broke that a farm near Surrey had tested positive for foot and mouth disease.

The news awake fears of a repeat of the devastating outbreak in 2001, which cost the country and estimated £8bn.

To prevent the spread of the disease, an three-kilometre exclusion zone was placed around the farm. Foot and mouth was later found at another farm a few miles away.

The Merial research lab in Pirbright was soon identified as a possible cause of the outbreak - though the lab has said that they have found no evidence of an outbreak. Each location now has an exclusion zone around it.

The blue circles shows the exclusion zones from the previous outbreak; the yellow circle is the latest outbreak.

Click on the red markers for more information about each incident - or zoom in to see a map of the surrounding area.

Or you can click on the list of items below the map to open the small photo windows.


Click on these links to go straight to an incident



Please note: Some locations are approximate