Rabies - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2019

Surveillance report
Publication series: Annual Epidemiological Report
Time period covered: 1 January - 31 December 2019
Cite:

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Rabies. In: ECDC. Annual epidemiological report for 2019. Stockholm: ECDC; 2021.

For 2019, EU/EEA countries reported five human Lyssavirus infections. Four human cases of travel-related rabies were reported by Italy, Latvia, Spain and Norway with exposure in Tanzania, India, Morocco and the Philippines, respectively. One locally-acquired fatal case of European bat lyssavirus (EBLV-1) infection was reported by France.

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