Some Distributional Features of the Foot and Mouth Epidemic

Abstract

The unusual distributional features of the recent foot and mouth epidemic suggest that there were several outbreak centres. The critical period in the outbreak was between the twenty-third and thirty-fifth days when the maximum number of daily outbreaks was recorded, and the epidemic reached its greatest spatial extent. Efforts to contain the disease may have been aided by the two ridges of high pressure present in the area in the week following November 17, 1967.