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  Pirbright shown within Surrey |
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| Population | 1,374[1] |
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| District | Guildford |
| Shire county | Surrey |
| Region | South East |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Woking |
| Postcode district | GU24 |
| Dialling code | 01483 |
| Police | Surrey |
| Fire | Surrey |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| European Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Woking |
| List of places: UK • England • Surrey | |
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Its name came from Anglo-Saxon Pirige-fyrhþ = "sparse woodland where peartrees grow". A pear is a pomaceous Fruit produced by a tree of Genus Pyrus.
Excluding the military area, the village has a population of 1,750 with 1,200 living near the green and the remainder in three outlying settlements, each about a mile from the centre. The village is almost entirely surrounded by heathland, much of it owned and used by the MoD. Heaths are Shrubland habitats characterised by open low growing woody Vegetation, found on mainly infertile Acidic soils The Ministry of Defence ( MoD) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for implementation of government defence policy and is the headquarters [2]
Its churchyard contains the grave of Henry Morton Stanley. Sir Henry Morton Stanley, GCB, born John Rowlands ( January 28 1841 &ndash May 10 1904) was a British journalist
Cricket has been played on the village green since 1780. [3]
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Pirbright Laboratory
The Pirbright Laboratory is a government research establishment that investigates diseases in farm animals. It is part of the Institute for Animal Health, which is supported by the UK's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). The Institute for Animal Health is a research institute in the United Kingdom dedicated to the study of infectious diseases of farm animals The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC is a British Research Council and Non-Departmental Public Body supporting several scientific The Pirbright Laboratory is an international reference laboratory for the diagnosis of diseases in an emergency. Its research includes work on foot and mouth disease and swine vesicular disease. Foot-and-mouth disease ( FMD) or hoof-and-mouth disease ( Aphtae epizooticae) is a highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral Swine vesicular disease ( SVD) is an acute contagious Viral disease of Swine caused by the swine vesicular disease virus, an Enterovirus
On Saturday 4th August 2007 it was announced that the a strain of foot-and-mouth disease detected in cattle three miles away was similar to that in use at Pirbright. It is widely believed within the scientific community that the strain of the virus released came from the Merial lab[1] due to leaking pipes connecting Merial and the IAH.
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See also
2007 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak
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