[1] There were three official inquiries into the foot-and-mouth epidemics and the Government’s response in the fifty years prior to the 1967 outbreak.
[citation needed] In October 1967, a farmer from Bryn Farm near Oswestry in the county of Shropshire, concerned by the health of one of their sows, sought veterinary advice and the animal was found to have contracted foot-and-mouth disease.
[2] Origins of the 1967-8 Foot-and-Mouth Disease Epidemic was published by the Chief Veterinary Officer, John Reid, on 7 February 1968.
[2] After the outbreak, the United Kingdom adopted a policy to control imports from countries where foot-and-mouth is endemic.
[2] According to John Bennett, a young farmer at the time of the crisis at Manor Farm in Worcestershire, the disease was introduced into the county "when a local farmer fed skimmed milk, bought from Shropshire where the disease was raging out of control, to his pigs".
[7] The outbreak was referenced by the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the 1969 James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.