By Claire Powell
The confirmation of foot and mouth disease on a number of livestock units in the Larnaca region on February 20 is a chilling coincidence of dates. Exactly 25 years before, on February 20, 2001, (FMD) was confirmed in pigs at an English abattoir in Essex.
This was the first case of an epidemic which over the next 11 months, cleared over 9,000 British farms of livestock and
