September 21, 2007

UK farm in Solihull negative for FMD

A temporary control zone around a farm in Solihull, in the UK's West Midlands, has been lifted after tests for foot-and-mouth disease on animals there proved negative, BBC News reported on its Web site Thursday.

Earlier, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said it was also lifting some movement restrictions outside the surveillance zone surrounding the three farms where the disease was found most recently, all near Egham, Surrey, according to the BBC.

The BBC also reported that tests showed the latest outbreak of foot-and-mouth in Surrey was the same strain as in all the other recent cases, the government said. Animals at the Klondyke farm were culled earlier this week after testing positive for the disease.

It was the fifth farm found to have infected livestock since August, the BBC said.