The news of a new 'suspect' case of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), on Romney Marsh, North of new Romney in Kent is not good. However, we can hope that, like the recent case near Dorking, this will turn out to be a false alarm. The waiting is not nice.

STOP PRESS: While writing this, news of a new Control Zone in Surrey was announced by the BBC. This is also an unconfirmed suspect case.

The Kent information has reached the DEFRA update site: http://www.defra.gov.uk/footandmouth/latest-situation/index.htm but the new suspect outbreak in Surrey is too new at the time of writing.

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