British foot-and-mouth outbreak ‘will be small’

FOOT-and-mouth disease in Britain is unlikely to spread beyond a small area, according to a New Zealand expert in computer modelling and predicting the spread of diseases such as foot and mouth and bird flu.

Professor Roger Morris of Massey University has developed software used by governments around the world to predict animal disease patterns.

His study of the latest outbreak indicated it will be very small — three farms at most.