Bluetonguevsfoot and mouth the statistics

15x

is the difference between a restriction zone for foot and mouth disease (10km) and that for an outbreak of bluetongue (150km)

200km

can be covered by a midge in a day, given the right weather conditions. Midges normally travel about 1.5-2km in a day

[pound]121m

has been budgeted to create a new government laboratory at Pirbright, due to be ready by 2011

34m

sheep in the UK in 2007 - 18 per cent fewer than in 2000, the year before the foot and mouth epidemic

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