Foot and Mouth Disease 2001 Daily Maps for Great Britain, Week of 03.09.2001

Daily JPEG maps from the 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak in Great Britain show the number of confirmed cases and suspected premises within infected areas. The maps were produced by the Animal and Plant Health Agency and are Crown Copyright. This collection provides a visual daily overview for a specific week during the epidemic.

Use Cases

• Visualizing the spatial progression of a major animal disease outbreak based on daily maps.
• Analyzing the correlation between confirmed cases and suspected premises within defined infected areas.
• Studying historical agricultural disease response and surveillance methods in the UK.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the official UK government agency (APHA), suggesting authoritative origins.
• Provides daily visual snapshots, which can support temporal analysis of the outbreak's progression.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), UK Government

Collection Method

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Time Range

Week commencing 03 September 2001

Freshness

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Geography

Great Britain (GB)