As of January 1st, 2002, the foot-and-mouth epidemic is presumed to be over.

The last two confirmed cases were confirmed at Steel, near Hexham, Northumberland, on the 29th September, 2001, and on Wyhgill Head Farm, Cumbria, on 30th September, 2001.

There were a total of 2030 cases nationwide, over 4 million animals slaughtered as members of herds/flocks containing one or more animals positively diagnosed with the disease, and approximately the same number of animals from flocks containing animals without the disease but on premises adjoining ("contiguous to") farms with infected herds/flocks. (No records appear to be available for the true number of animals slaughtered on contiguous premises.)

Of three dozen counties affected by the disease, only Northumberland remains to be officially declared free of of the virus (although some ministry vets remain unconvinced that there may not remain a pool of latent, undetected virus in formerly infected but undiagnosed and long recovered animals).

The final county totals for Cumbria and the north-east were: