EPIDEMIO-SURVEILLANCE OF RABIES IN BELGIU M - RECRUDESCENCE IN 1994

Authors
BROCHIER B COSTY F DECONINCK V HALLET L BOURHY H PEHARPRE D MOSSELMANS F BEYER R LECOMTE L MULLIER P BAUDUIN B PASTORET PP
Citation
B. Brochier et al., EPIDEMIO-SURVEILLANCE OF RABIES IN BELGIU M - RECRUDESCENCE IN 1994, Annales de medecine veterinaire, 139(4), 1995, pp. 263
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Veterinary Sciences
Journal title
Annales de medecine veterinaire → ACNP
ISSN journal
00034118
Volume
139
Issue
4
Year of publication
1995
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-4118(1995)139:4<263:EORIBM>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
In 1994, rabies was confirmed in 43 foxes and 18 domestic animals coll ected in a border region in southern Belgium, These cases demonstrated a reinfection in an area previously freed from rabies by fox vaccinat ion campaigns. Two campaigns of fox vaccination in a restricted area c arried out in 1994 were not able to stop the spread from initial outbr eak. Several factors, e,g, the high density of fox population, could e xplain a too low rate of vaccine-bait uptake. Regarding the current ep idemiological situation, alternative strategies of bait distribution a re proposed.