Rabid dog illegally imported to France from Morocco, August 2011

A. Mailles (1) , D. Boisseleau (2) , Laurent Dacheux (3) , C. Michalewiscz (4) , C. Gloaguen (4) , N. Ponçon (5) , Hervé Bourhy (3) , H. Callon (5) , V. Vaillant (1) , I. Dabosville (6) , P. Morineau-Le Houssine (6)

1 INVS - Institut de Veille Sanitaire
2 Direction départementale de la protection des populations de Vendée
3 CC-OMS - Centre Collaborateur de l'OMS pour la Rage - Dynamique des lyssavirus et adaptation à l'hôte
4 Agence régionale de Santé Pays de la Loire [Nantes]
5 DGAL - Direction Générale de l'Alimentation
6 CHU Nantes - Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nantes

In August 2011, a case of canine rabies was notified to the French veterinary services. The dog was a three-month-old puppy illegally imported from Morocco that presented behavioural changes on 1 August and was admitted to a veterinary clinic on 6 August. It died the following day and the body was shortly sent to the national reference centre where rabies was laboratory-confirmed on 11 August. Contact tracing and post-exposure treatment were initiated immediately.

Keywords: Animals; Commerce; Contact Tracing; Dog Diseases; Post-Exposure Prophylaxis; Rabies; Rabies virus; RNA; Viral; Travel; France; Direct; Fluorescent Antibody Technique; Dogs; Morocco; Jurisprudence; Humans

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Microbiology and Parasitology; Virology

A. Mailles, D. Boisseleau, Laurent Dacheux, C. Michalewiscz, C. Gloaguen, et al.. Rabid dog illegally imported to France from Morocco, August 2011. Eurosurveillance, 2011, 16 (33), ⟨10.2807/ese.16.33.19946-en⟩. ⟨pasteur-01491356⟩