A New York police officer and two lab technicians are being treated with antibiotics for exposure to the bacteria. Officials said an area around Crediton is no longer being treated as infected. It will mean 648 farmers can send animals to any slaughterhouse willing to accept them, as long as it can be reached in a journey of less than four and a half hours. It also means farmers, previously only able to move animals within the infected area, can now apply for licences to move livestock elsewhere.
Restrictions are still in place in other areas of Devon and Cornwall.
There are several others in progress and we hope they might come up to being lifted in the next week or two.