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Last Updated: Saturday August 04 2007 10:54 GMT

What is foot-and-mouth?

Cows in a field
It's a highly infectious disease which affects farm animals like cows, sheep, pigs and goats, or any animals with cloven hooves.

The last major outbreak of foot-and-mouth was in 2001.

There were more than 2,000 cases in Britain and nearly six million animals were destroyed.

Guide to Foot-and-Mouth

• What is foot-and-mouth?
• What happens to an infected animal?
• How does the disease spread?
• Are my pets in danger?
• What about me?
• How do we fight the disease?

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