Rabies and canine distemper virus epidemics in the red fox population of northern Italy (2006-2010).

ABSTRACT: Since 2006 the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) population in north-eastern Italy has experienced an epidemic of canine distemper virus (CDV). Additionally, in 2008, after a thirteen-year absence from Italy, fox rabies was re-introduced in the Udine province at the national border with Slovenia. Disease intervention strategies are being developed and implemented to control rabies in this area and minimise risk to human health. Here we present empirical data and the epidemiological picture relating to these epidemics in the period 2006-2010. Of important significance for epidemiological studies of wild animals, basic mathematical models are developed to exploit information collected from the surveillance program on dead and/or living animals in order to assess the incidence of infection. These model

SUBMITTER: Nouvellet P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3632604 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature