Foot and Mouth Disease 2001 Daily Case Maps for Great Britain

Great Britain daily maps showing the number of confirmed Foot and Mouth Disease cases within each infected area for the week commencing 05 March 2001. The dataset consists of JPEG image files produced by the UK Government's Animal and Plant Health Agency. Attribution is held under Crown Copyright.

Use Cases

• Visualizing the spatial progression of an FMD outbreak based on daily case counts.
• Analyzing the geographic concentration of infected areas mentioned in the description.
• Creating timelines of disease spread for historical case studies.
• Training image recognition models to identify annotated disease maps.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific, high-impact historical outbreak (2001 FMD in GB).
• Provides daily temporal granularity for the documented week.
• Contains geospatial information by showing cases within infected areas.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; map content and annotations must be inferred visually.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), UK Government.

Collection Method

Likely produced by government veterinary and cartographic services for situational awareness.

Time Range

Week commencing 05 March 2001.

Freshness

Data appears to be a historical snapshot from 2001; update frequency is not applicable.

Geography

Great Britain (GB).