Perhaps the best example of such a response is when FMD entered the United Kingdom in 2001. ... Authorities carry disinfectant liquid near a farm during the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease ...

The financial consequences of an animal epidemic on the scale of the 2001 foot-and-mouth disease outbreak would be colossal ...

The United Kingdom has banned all imports of pigs, sheep, cattle and dairy products from Germany, over concerns stemming from a confirmed outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. German officials first ...

One of the last major outbreaks occurred in the United Kingdom in 2001. More than 6 million sheep and cows were depopulated to stop the spread of the disease. In January, a case of FMD in water ...

A major outbreak in the United Kingdom in 2001 led to the culling of more than six million animals and cost the economy billions, devastating the livestock industry and tourism.

German livestock farmers fear they could suffer crippling costs after the country’s first case of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in nearly four decades was detected in a farm near Berlin last Friday.

It’s the highly contagious disease that wrought havoc in the United Kingdom two decades ago. ... The UK’s foot and mouth outbreak in 2001 cost about $19 billion. Credit: AP.