Foot and Mouth Disease 2001 Daily Maps for Great Britain, Week of 18 June 2001

APHA (Animal and Plant Health Agency) produced daily maps showing the spread of Foot and Mouth Disease in Great Britain during the 2001 outbreak. The dataset contains JPEG images for the week commencing 18 June 2001, visualizing confirmed cases and suspected premises within infected areas. The maps are Crown Copyright, APHA 2016.

Use Cases

• Visualizing the spatial progression of an animal disease outbreak based on daily case maps.
• Analyzing the correlation between confirmed FMD cases and suspected premises within defined infected areas.
• Creating timelines or animations of disease spread for educational or historical analysis.
• Studying the effectiveness of containment and surveillance zones during the 2001 UK FMD epidemic.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the official UK government agency (APHA), providing authoritative records.
• Maps offer a daily temporal resolution for a specific, critical week during the 2001 outbreak.
• Covers a defined geographic scope (Great Britain) with infected areas delineated.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official veterinary reports and surveillance data during the outbreak.

Time Range

Week commencing 18 June 2001.

Freshness

Data reflects a specific historical period (June 2001); update frequency is not applicable.

Geography

Great Britain (GB).