Foot and mouth disease outbreak in Kent in 2001
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Updated: 07:03, 04 February 2021
The sight of dead cattle, sheep and pigs being torched in fields was an enduring image of foot and mouth disease, which plagued Kent and the rest of the country in 2001. The highly infectious epidemic had taken such a grip that even uncontaminated animals were slaughtered to stop the spread.
Warning: Contains graphic images
Allhallows, scene of the first foot and mouth case in Kent, March 10, 2001.
On February 27 the KM Group s then evening newspaper, Medway Today, published harrowing pictures of cattles bodies being burned after they were laid out on coal and straw.