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10/12/2008
The 2nd issue of 2008 has been
published online and the printed version will be delivered in due time. The
first miscellaneous article is provided by the colleagues from the AFFSA, Nancy,
France designated as Community Reference Laboratory for Rabies on July 28th
2008. This article states the terms of references of this new reference lab for
the European Union. The second article is a report about an unusual incubation
period in a Daubenton’s bat tested EBLV-2 positive in the United Kingdom.
In the meantime during the production of this
issue, rabies cases in foxes were found in previously rabies free areas in the
north-east of Italy and also in areas beyond the vaccination belt in Slovenia
bordering Italy. A first report was published in Eurosurveillance (http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19033)
Both countries intend to start oral
vaccination in the affected areas. We will give updates on this development in
upcoming issues.
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11/09/2008
Updating the Rabies Bulletin Europe
homepage
Thanks to our dedicated technical staff Detlef
Klöß the website has been updated and enlarged. The most obvious change is the
logo of the World Rabies Day on our navigation sidebar. We also included a
separate World Rabies Day section in our navigation to support spreading the
information of this valuable initiative.
The maps produced have sometimes raised questions on accuracy and data source.
Now, we provide background information for our mapping system before displaying
maps. An additional article “Thirty years of WHO Rabies Bulletin Europe - a
reflection” by Dr. Meslin, WHO, has been added to the archive to represent the
history of this journal.
For more detailed information on Rabies in Europe, various publications of WHO
and/or OIE are presented in a new section.
In the general information section of Bats and Rabies a download link to our bat
rabies leaflet has been added. Furthermore, a column video has been added: It
shows behavioural observations in some rabid bats and was kindly provided by
Zomer Bruijn, Amersfoort, Netherlands. It was initially published in RBE
03/2004.
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05/09/2008
After more than 30 years of “traditional” RBE starting with the
latest RBE 01/2008 we decided to change the size of this bulletin to a journal
style. Due to these efforts the production of the latest issue was delayed. This
step is ment to increase the print quality of the journal, to improve the
convenience for the readers and as a contribution to WHO’s cooperate identity.
We hope to meet your expectations in this way. Otherwise, the content remains
unchanged. The printed version will be delivered in due time.
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