Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreak Maps for Great Britain, Week of November 2001

Daily maps from November 2001 showing the number of confirmed Foot and Mouth Disease cases and suspected premises in Great Britain. The maps were compiled by the UK's Animal and Plant Health Agency to reflect status changes during the outbreak. Attribution is Crown Copyright, APHA 2016.

Use Cases

• Visualizing the geographic spread of a major animal disease outbreak based on the daily maps.
• Analyzing the progression of confirmed cases and suspected premises over a specific week.
• Creating historical timelines of veterinary public health events in Great Britain.

Strengths

• Provides a daily visual record of a significant historical outbreak.
• Focuses on a specific, critical week during the 2001 epidemic.
• Source is a government agency (APHA), suggesting official status.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred.
• Data format is JPEG, which may limit quantitative analysis without digitization.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Maps compiled to reflect status changes during the outbreak.

Time Range

Week commencing 19 November 2001.

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Great Britain (GB).