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Two temporary control zones outside Surrey have been lifted after animals tested negative for foot-and-mouth disease, Defra has said. | Two temporary control zones outside Surrey have been lifted after animals tested negative for foot-and-mouth disease, Defra has said. |
The results in Hampshire and West Sussex mean the disease has not spread since the Surrey outbreak in August. | |
However, animal movement restrictions remain in much of south-east England following the Surrey cases. | |
Meanwhile, another case of bluetongue virus has been found at the Suffolk farm where it was confirmed earlier. | Meanwhile, another case of bluetongue virus has been found at the Suffolk farm where it was confirmed earlier. |
'Acceptable risk' | |
A seventh case of foot-and-mouth disease was confirmed on Monday at a farm in Englefield Green, Surrey, but it is inside the existing protection zone at Egham. | |
Movement restrictions are due to be lifted across Wales, Scotland and large parts of England from 1530 BST, although markets still cannot be held. | |
Chief vet Debby Reynolds said: "Our aim is to get farming back to normal when the risk is acceptable to do so." | |
The restrictions apply to Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Berkshire, Greater London, Surrey, Kent, Hampshire, West Sussex and East Sussex. | |
'Come through' | |
A surveillance zone covering parts of East Anglia and the East Midlands has been put in place to monitor bluetongue. | |
Richard Storer, owner of the Baylham House Rare Breeds Farm, near Ipswich, told BBC Radio Suffolk it had been "one hell of a week" for him and his family. | |
"We've come through it and hopefully it's all over now," he said. | |
"The blood samples, taken from the animals yesterday, will take some time before we know there are no other animals on the place with the virus." |
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