Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2009)

Rabies in Foxes, Aegean Region, Turkey

  • Ad Vos,
  • Conrad Freuling,
  • Seza Eskiizmirliler,
  • Hikmet Ün,
  • Orhan Aylan,
  • Nicholas Johnson,
  • Semra Gürbüz,
  • Winfried Müller,
  • Necdet Akkoca,
  • Thomas Müller,
  • Anthony R. Fooks,
  • Haluk Askaroglu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1510.090203
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 10
pp. 1620 – 1622

Abstract

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At the end of the 1990s in the Aegean region of Turkey, rabies rapidly spread among foxes. This spread likely resulted from spillover infection from dogs and led to increased rabies cases among cattle. To control this outbreak, oral rabies vaccination of foxes has been used.

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