In the light of the re-emergence of foot and mouth disease in the UK, BBC News Online follows the story in Audio and Video, and looks back through the archive to the last big outbreak of the disease in 1967. A 10-mile exclusion zone is set up around the infected cattle farm in Highampton.
Investigators carry out tests on another suspected outbreak at a nearby farm.
The mass slaughter begins of thousands of pigs and cattle on farms across England. Preparations are made to burn the carcasses on bonfires to minimise the risk of infection. But there are no further signs of the disease spreading. The BBC's Mike McKay reports. The repercussions of the outbreak are spreading way beyond the industries.