page_title: 2007 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak
section_title: First outbreak
hierarchical_section_title: 2007 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak / First outbreak
caption_attribution_description: English: Normandy, Surrey, UK
context_page_description: A contained four-site outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom was found by regular livestock testing by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, namely in August 2007 three times, and once the following month, all in the west of Surrey, England.
  The first diagnosis took place in a field of Normandy, Surrey; the second was three days later in a cattle-rotation field of the farmer in Elstead, and the following day nearby, a third infection within a quickly-established protection zone around the first incidence. One month and ten days after the first diagnosis a final incidence of 2007 was identified and dealt with 13 miles north of the first diseased animal. The source of the strain released and contained in Surrey in 2007 was the advanced effluent pipes from either the Institute for Animal Health or the similar vaccine researching and producing Merial Animal Health laboratory near to Pirbright village in the county – the pipes were too old and/or insufficiently inspected given their importance.
context_section_description: Symptoms were first reported late on 2 August 2007 on farmland in Normandy in Surrey, which was subsequently isolated and placed under restrictions. 
  The site was a field for beef fattening rented by Derrick and Roger Pride.
caption: The field in which the infected cattle were grazing immediately before testing positive for foot-and-mouth disease.[1]
exif: {}