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Approaching from the east, a new rabies epidemic our country. The detailed information on the epidemiology of the disease were from the Italian health authorities announced today at a meeting in Milan carried out on the European game policy. If the disease front can be stopped by the vaccination campaign, could Grisons are again faced with this disease in the next two to three years. 





 The first cases of rabies reached the province of Udine in the Italian Eastern Alps in 2008. Prior to the rabies in Slovenia had occurred. In 2009, the epidemic continues to spread westward, and particularly in the Belluno province led to many rabies cases. To date the authorities have a total of 137 rabies cases, with over 121 alone in foxes. Were affected but also deer, badgers, cats, dogs and some horses and donkeys. 


On 16 February 2010 was registered the first case of rabies in the province of Trento, orographically still on the left side of the Adige Valley. A large-scale oral vaccination of foxes has been carried out to the area from the mountain ridge to the Po River in the south and the Adige River covers the west. In Lombardy, which means the area immediately to the Swiss border to the east, there have been no rabies cases have been detected. 


This could change quickly, however, if that is not the way you want the foxes do not respond to the vaccination campaign. Then, the front would continue to move westward and are just a few years of Grisons. 

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