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  Pirbright in the spotlight

  Interactive guide: Trace the Surrey foot and mouth outbreak in the summer of 2007 and the measures it invoked, plus background to the 2001 outbreak

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  Farmers sue for damages in Pirbright foot-and-mouth outbreak

  Oct 17 2008:

  Government and two laboratories face claim for £1.5m over alleged negligence in last year's outbreak

• Porton Down's deadly anthrax labs too old for safety, say MPs

  Jun 25 2008:

  Biosecurity 'undermined by poor maintenance', says report that highlights risk of more Pirbright-type leaks

• New animal disease institute proposed

  Mar 12 2008:

  Scientific institute should be set up to tackle threat from exotic animal diseases, review suggests

• Foot and mouth laboratory branded 'visibly substandard'

  Mar 11 2008:

  An independent inquiry into last summer's foot and mouth outbreak today condemned conditions at the animal health laboratory at Pirbright, Surrey

• Rudolph regrets, but he can't be with Santa

  Dec 23 2007: Outbreaks of foot and mouth disease and bluetongue virus have taken their toll on Britain's reindeer business. Protective zones set up to limit the risk of infection mean the animals have been unable to travel to many areas

• What happened to ... Bluetongue

  Dec 16 2007: Since August 2006, the virus has spread from South Africa and across the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and northern France

• Foot and mouth outbreak scientists blame Defra

  Dec 14 2007: Second scare was a result of not mopping up the first properly, says leaked report from Institute for Animal Health

• Background: Merial and foot and mouth

  Nov 22 2007: Despite recent disease outbreaks the commercial occupant of the Pirbright animal health site manufactures gold standard veterinary medicines, writes James Sturcke.

• 'Probable' new foot and mouth leak from laboratory

  Nov 22 2007: There has been a 'probable' new leak of foot and mouth disease virus at the Merial Animal Health facility at Pirbright, the environment secretary Hilary Benn said today

• Disasters leave Defra facing £115m deficit, MPs told

  Nov 22 2007:

  The department in charge of climate change and farming is facing a £115m overspend this year after animal health crises, from foot and mouth to bird flu, and an overspend on day-to-day administration, it has been revealed

• Farmers launch foot and mouth compensation claims

  Nov 13 2007: Lawyers for farmers begin test cases against two animal testing laboratories for loss of earnings caused by this summer's outbreak

• Up to 500,000 healthy lambs to be culled, but none for food

  Oct 29 2007: Up to 250,000 healthy Welsh hill lambs will be culled and incinerated in the next few weeks to avoid a welfare disaster.

• Foot and mouth tests on Sussex farm

  Oct 15 2007: Government vets are carrying out tests for foot and mouth on a sheep farm near Rye, East Sussex.

• EU relaxes ban on meat exports

  Oct 12 2007: The EU has allowed meat exports to resume from Scotland, Wales and parts of England, lifting a ban imposed after the outbreak of bluetongue and foot and mouth disease.

• £12.5m in foot and mouth aid released

  Oct 8 2007: Funds will go to help farmers and market English meat.

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