Veterinarska stanica, Vol. 51 No. 4, 2020.
Pregledni rad
https://doi.org/10.46419/vs.51.4.11
In the shadow of COVID-19: Towards declaring a rabies-free Croatia
Ivana Lojkić
orcid.org/0000-0003-1559-9020
; Hrvatski veterinarski institut, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Ivana Šimić
; Hrvatski veterinarski institut, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Nina Krešić
; Hrvatski veterinarski institut, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Ivana Lohman Janković
; Ministarstvo poljoprivrede RH, Uprava za veterinarstvo i sigurnost hrane, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Tomislav Bedeković
; Hrvatski veterinarski institut, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
One of the strategic goals of the European Union (EU) in the field of animal health is to declare the entire EU territory free of classical terrestrial rabies (caused by the classic rabies virus) by 2020. Thanks to the success of oral vaccination, implemented in Europe since 1978, most countries in Western and Central Europe have been free of rabies since the beginning of the 21st century. The last case of rabies in Croatia was recorded in the spring of 2014, just three years after the start of implementation of the national oral rabies vaccination programme. The logical next step is obtaining the official status of a rabies-free country, and consequently transitioning to a new rabies control policy in the country. However, understanding rabies as a global threat to health, especially given the presence of the virus in bats, constant monitoring is still needed.
Ključne riječi
rabies; oral vaccination; EU; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
238597
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Datum izdavanja:
12.6.2020.
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