Travel-Associated Rabies in Pets and Residual Rabies Risk, Western Europe

Florence Ribadeau-Dumas (1, 2) , Florence Cliquet (3) , Philippe Gautret (4, 5) , Emmanuelle Robardet (3) , Claude Le Pen (2) , Hervé Bourhy (6)

1 IP - Institut Pasteur [Paris]
2 Université Paris Dauphine-PSL
3 ANSES - Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail
4 URMITE - Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes
5 APHM - Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille
6 DyLAH - Dynamique des Lyssavirus et Adaptation à l'Hôte

In 2015, countries in western Europe were declared free of rabies in nonflying mammals. Surveillance data for 2001-2013 indicate that risk for residual rabies is not 0 because of pet importation from countries with enzootic rabies. However, the risk is so low (7.52 × 10(-10)) that it probably can be considered negligible.

Keywords: humans; dogs; western Europe; communicable disease control; cats; risk; rabies virus; travel; rabies; viruses

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Santé publique et épidémiologie

Florence Ribadeau-Dumas, Florence Cliquet, Philippe Gautret, Emmanuelle Robardet, Claude Le Pen, et al.. Travel-Associated Rabies in Pets and Residual Rabies Risk, Western Europe. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016, 22 (7), pp.1268 - 1271. ⟨10.3201/eid2207.151733⟩. ⟨pasteur-01429541⟩