Britain finally free of disease
12 April 2012
Britain was today declared free of foot-and-mouth, 11 months after the disease took its crippling hold on the countryside.
Restrictions were lifted on Northumberland at midnight as the county suspected of being the source of the epidemic received a clean bill of health.
In total, more than six million animals were slaughtered and heaped on funeral pyres as a result of 2,030 cases between February and the final case on 30 September last year.
