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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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...
Jennifer Vanda Ann Nicholson was born on 17 October 1980 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, the eldest of the three children of Gregory J. Nicholson and Julie K. Nicholson née North (b.1953). Her sibling...
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
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