Rabies in Greece; historical perspectives in view of the current re-emergence in wild and domestic animals》.pdf

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease (2014) 12, 628e635 Available online at ScienceDirect journal homepage: /journals/tmid REVIEW Rabies in Greece; historical perspectives in view of the current re-emergence in wild and domestic animals Sotirios Tsiodras a,b,*, Laskarina-Maria Korou c, Myrsini Tzani c, Konstantia E. Tasioudi d, Kostantinos Kalachanis e, Olga Mangana-Vougiouka d, George Rigakos a, George Dougas a, Aristarchos M. Seimenis f, Vassileios Kontos g a Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Athens, Greece b National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece c Department of Zoonoses, Animal Health Directorate, Directorate General of Veterinary Services, Ministry of Rural Development and Food, Athens, Greece d Virology Department, Institute of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Athens Center of Veterinary Institutes, Ministry of Rural Development and Food, Athens, Greece e University of Athens, Faculty of Physics, Department of Astrophysics-Astronomy-Mechanics, Athens, Greece f WHO/Mediterranean Zoonoses Control Centre, Athens, Greece g National School of Public Health, Athens, Greece Received 3 April 2014; received in revised form 25 September 2014; accepted 14 October 2014 Available online 23 October 2014 KEYWORDS Summary Greece has been rabies free since 1987 while no human cases have been seen since Rabies; 1970. The re-emergence of rabies in Northern Greece during 2012e2013 in wild and domestic History; animals prompted a systematic review of historical evidence of the presence of the disease in Greece; the country from ancient years till the present. Historical data is presented along with efforts Re-emergence; to pre