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| New foot-and-mouth case suspected | New foot-and-mouth case suspected |
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| A suspected new case of foot-and-mouth is being investigated in Hampshire, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has said. | A suspected new case of foot-and-mouth is being investigated in Hampshire, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has said. |
| A 3km temporary control zone has been set up around premises in Petersfield. | A 3km temporary control zone has been set up around premises in Petersfield. |
| It comes after cattle were slaughtered at a farm on the Surrey/Berkshire border on Saturday after testing positive for the disease. | It comes after cattle were slaughtered at a farm on the Surrey/Berkshire border on Saturday after testing positive for the disease. |
| A cow has also been culled at a farm in Suffolk after becoming Britain's first case of bluetongue disease. | A cow has also been culled at a farm in Suffolk after becoming Britain's first case of bluetongue disease. |
| On Saturday, 40 cattle were slaughtered at Beaumont College farm in Old Windsor after the entire herd tested positive for the disease. | |
| False alarms | |
| It was the fourth farm affected in the past two weeks around Egham, Surrey - with the first case emerging just days after officials declared the UK free of the disease following the previous outbreak in August. | |
| A 3km control zone is in place around the affected farms. | |
| A number of sites outside Surrey have also been investigated in the past two weeks and several control zones set up but these have all proved to be false alarms. | |
| Some 1,800 animals have so far been slaughtered but some of the movement restrictions outside the surveillance zone have been lifted. | |
| Licences are now available to allow pigs to be moved for welfare reasons, and the movement of animals up to 3km (1.8 miles) or cows for calving up to 50km (31 miles) between premises belonging to the same owner. | |
| The August outbreak, which affected two premises, was blamed on the virus escaping from leaking pipes at the nearby Pirbright laboratory site. |