{"id":57261,"date":"2015-05-27T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=2646d534fd9f3c1281a35c514da4d38f"},"modified":"2015-12-03T16:59:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T16:59:29","slug":"news-story-rabies-in-france-may-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=57261","title":{"rendered":"News story: Rabies in France, update December 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated:<\/em> Updated to reflect France’s rabies-free status.<\/p>\n

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Following a 6 month surveillance period during which no secondary rabies cases were detected, the French authorities have now reported to the World Organisation for Animal Health<\/a> that the event is considered resolved.<\/p>\n

The current Public Health England rabies risk assessment for the whole of France is therefore – no risk.<\/p>\n

The incident in May 2015<\/h3>\n

In May 2015, authorities in France reported that a dog had been diagnosed and confirmed with rabies. The dog lived in the town of Le Chambon Feugerolles<\/a>, in the Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes region of France. On 16 May 2015, it became aggressive, biting several people and another dog, and was taken by its owners to a veterinarian who placed it in quarantine. The dog died the next day. <\/p>\n

Investigations determined that the dog, a 7 month old white bull terrier, had been illegally taken to Algeria for 3 weeks, and developed rabies after returning to France. The rabies virus was shown to be type Africa 1, confirming Algeria as the source of its infection.<\/p>\n

Public health officials identified and risk assessed all those who might have had contact with the dog between 7 and 16 May 2015, and also determined if any other animals had been in contact or were affected. <\/p>\n

Anyone who was bitten, licked or scratched by a dog in this area of France between May and November 2015 was urged to seek medical advice.<\/p>\n

See health protection advice on rabies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Authorities in France have confirmed that France has regained its rabies-free status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64980,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57261\/revisions\/64980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}