Pirbright

51.2861111111110.63916666666667Koordinaten: 51 ° 17 ' N, 0 ° 38 ' E

Pirbright is a village in Surrey, England. At the neighboring villages include Worplesdon, Deepcut, Brookwood and Normandy. The community Pirbright with an area of about 4,711 acres divided into two distinctly separate communities: north of the railroad, the military area, south of the village. The area includes a training barracks of the army.

The town's name derives from the Anglo-Saxon Pirige - fyrhþ from, which means " thin forest area, growing up in the pear trees ."

Without the military area, the village has a population of 1750; 1200 live around the village square, the rest about a mile away in remote areas of the village center. The village is almost entirely surrounded by heathland, much of which is owned by the Ministry of Defence and is also used by him.

At the local cemetery there is the grave of journalists, African explorer and author, Henry Morton Stanley.

On the village green cricket is played since 1780.

Pirbright Laboratory

The Pirbright Laboratory is a research institute of government, explores the diseases of farm animals. It belongs to the Institute for Animal Health ( Institute for Animal Health - IAH ), which is supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council ( BBSRC ). The Pirbright Laboratory is an international reference laboratory for the diagnosis of diseases in emergencies. His research interests include foot-and- mouth disease and swine vesicular disease ( SVD). In Pirbright, the American private company Merial Animal Health is working searchingly. Their laboratories are also reviewed and approved by the state.

On Saturday, August 4, 2007, it was announced that the foot- and -mouth disease virus, which was discovered on a three miles distant farm, similar to that which is being studied in Pirbright. A report by the Council (BBSRC ) in the year 2002 it was said that some of the laboratories and other facilities at Pirbright not correspond to the standard remotely, which one could expect from a modern biomedical system.

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