The announcement that there is a suspect case of foot-and-mouth on a farm near Egham in Surrey has a different feel to some of the previous suspect cases we have seen.
The fact that cattle are to be pre-emptively slaughtered suggests that there are grounds for thinking that really is another case of the disease. Some of the suspect cases last month were not culled as a precuation.
Another strange feature of the case is that is in quite a built up area - although when you look at the map more closely it is in quite close proximity to Great Windsor Park. Given that there are large numbers of deer running around close by could this be a possible source of the disease?