Background
The previous confirmed epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom was in the spring and summer of 2001; it caused a crisis in British agriculture and tourism. The epizootic saw 2,000 cases of the disease in farms in most of the British countryside. There was foot-and-mouth disease scare during January 2007 in Northern Ireland but it is not thought to be related to the latest outbreak.
Read more about this topic: 2007 United Kingdom Foot-and-mouth Outbreak
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