The British government on Friday officially confirmed that cattle culled at a second Surrey farm have tested positive for foot-and-mouth disease.
The government's chief vet Debby Reynolds said that foot-and-mouth had been present at the farm - taking the total number of farms where the disease has been found in 2007 to four.
The chief vet said she was glad that all the animals on the farm had been culled before the test results were announced.
The "precautionary" cull of animals took place at Stroude Farm, in Egham, near the scene of the outbreak of the disease discovered on Wednesday, local media reported.
Stroude farm is about 16 kilometers from the Pirbright research complex blamed as the source for the foot-and-mouth outbreaks at two farms in early August.
A total of 940 cattle and pigs have reportedly been culled so far in the latest outbreak.
Initial tests show that the strain found Wednesday was the same as that found during the August outbreak.
The disease was confirmed in Egham only a week after the previous restrictions on cattle movements were lifted.
The government is facing criticism that it was too quick to declare Britain as free of foot-and-mouth last week.
The European Commission has banned all live animals susceptible to foot-and-mouth from being exported from Britain with the exemption of Northern Ireland, where animals can be exported freely.
A 10-km control zone has been set up around both of the farms affected.
Culling is continuing in areas at Ripley and near Shepperton, Staines and Thorpe, which are part of the first farm to be infected, according to the reports.
Source: Xinhua
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