Foot and Mouth Disease 2001 Daily Maps for Great Britain, Week of 26.11.2001

APHA and Crown Copyright daily maps show the number of confirmed Foot and Mouth Disease cases and suspected premises within infected areas for Great Britain. The dataset specifically covers the week commencing 26 November 2001. The data is provided as JPEG image files.

Use Cases

• Visualizing the spatial distribution of confirmed FMD cases based on the daily maps.
• Tracking the progression of suspected FMD premises over a specific week.
• Analyzing the geographic concentration of infected areas within Great Britain.
• Providing historical visual reference for disease outbreak modeling and simulation.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the UK government's Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), an authoritative body.
• Provides a specific temporal snapshot for a critical week during the 2001 FMD outbreak.
• Focuses on a defined geographic region (Great Britain) with clear infected area boundaries.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative analysis.
• Data is provided as static JPEG images, limiting direct computational analysis without preprocessing.

Provenance

Source

Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), Crown Copyright.

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official veterinary surveillance and reporting systems.

Time Range

Week commencing 26 November 2001.

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Great Britain (GB).