Arctic Rabies – A Review.docVIP

Acta vet. scand. 2004, 45, 1-9. Arctic Rabies – A Review By Torill M?rk1 and P?l Prestrud2 1National Veterinary Institute, Regional laboratory, and 2Norwegian Polar Institute, Polar Environmental Centre, N-9296 Troms?, Norway. M?rk T, Prestrud P: Arctic rabies – a review. Acta vet. scand. 2004, 45, 1-9. – Rabies seems to persist throughout most arctic regions, and the northern parts of Nor- way, Sweden and Finland, is the only part of the Arctic where rabies has not been diag- nosed in recent time. The arctic fox is the main host, and the same arctic virus variant seems to infe