Does Great Britain have rabies?

Question

Does Great Britain have rabies?

Answer 1

Only if it came through france and avoided our customs

Answer 2

Not anymore. Most countries of the world have rabies and there are only a few, including Britain, the Antarctic and Australia, which have been declared rabies free. The last case of rabies in the UK was in November 2002, when a conservation worker was bitten by a rabid bat. But there have been no cases in the UK of rabies being transmitted by a dog over the last 100 years.

Answer 3

I was unaware that a country could get rabies

Pain - once again you are correct about the people who do not read where they post their questions

Answer 4

Rabies from any source is rare in Great Britian, but has occured as recently as 2002.

Since 1902 there have been 26 reported cases of human rabies in the UK . Of these, 24 resulted from infection while abroad. The two exceptions being a case from 1902, reported shortly before rabies was eliminated, and a rare case of rabies caused by infection with European bat lyssavirus type 2, which was probably caused by a bite from an indigenous bat. Where data are available, the median age of those infected abroad is 35 years old, with 68·4 per cent (n=13) being male. Furthermore, current molecular techniques enable epidemiological investigation of the infecting virus, which can support the evidence provided by the case history on the source of the infection (Johnson and others 2002, Smith and others 2003). The most significant observation from this group is that the majority of cases (16 of 26) resulted from dog bites in the Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh). For the UK, postcolonial migration and the emergence of this region as a holiday destination has resulted in rabies cases among foreign nationals visiting the UK and UK citizens who have visited the region often for very short periods. This is illustrated by the most recent report of a 37-year-old woman who was bitten by a dog while on a two-week holiday in Goa (western India). Postexposure prophylaxis, which would normally comprise antirabies immunoglobulin and vaccination, was not administered. Three-and-a-half months after returning to the UK the victim developed rabies and died in 2005. A current public health challenge is to maintain awareness of the risks of rabies during foreign travel.

http://veterinaryrecord.bvapublications....

Until 2002 the United Kingdom had the luxury of being free of rabies. Worldwide as many as 70 000 deaths occur per year, half of which are in children. In 2002 the first death from indigenously acquired rabies occurred in over 100 years. A naturalist and licensed bat handler died, not from classical rabies but from European bat lyssavirus type  (EBLV-2), acquired in Scotland.  European bat lyssaviruses are closely related to the classical rabies virus. Hundreds of these infections have been confirmed in bats in continental Europe, mainly in Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, France, and Spain.  Most of these isolates were confirmed as EBLV-1 and predominantly associated with the serotine bat (Eptesicus serotinus) whereas EBLV-2 seems to be associated with Myotis species—principally the Daubenton's bats (Myotis daubentonii) and pond bats (Myotis dasycneme).

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best of luck to you!

Answer 5

Did it get bitten by France??

Answer 6

You must have untreated rabies, which goes to the brain and causes insanity.

Answer 7

yea they always take over the world and infect everyone with their culture.

Answer 8

No, quarantine has managed to keep Rabies out of GB