Rabies

The Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BSAF) launched the first for 2019 vaccination against rabies in wild animals. BFSA said on 27th of March, reports BNT. 

Twelve specially equipped aircraft will scatter over 1 million vaccine baits. The drop of vaccines will take place within 15 days, depending on weather conditions, BFSA explained.

A neighborhood in the western province of Aydın has been taken under quarantine for six months after a cat with rabies attacked two local women and a cow.

A town has been quarantined following the outbreak of a rabies concerns in the southern province of Osmaniye, with at least 104 people receiving treatment in hospital. 

A neighborhood in the Black Sea province of Samsun has been quarantined following the detection of the rabies virus in a dog that bit a woman in Samsun's Vezirköprü district.

A team of volunteer vets lent their support to Panagiota Tsagou who runs a veterinary clinic in Lechena, the western Peloponnese, so that they could help her deal with the influx of strays. The vets are there to help deal with the real risk of rabies.

Two neighborhoods in the western province of Bal?kesir have been quarantined for six months following the detection of rabies in a dog that bit two cows, two dogs and several birds in the province's Havran district.

A stray dog bit 30 people in the southeastern province of Van on June 10.

All those who were bitten were taken to hospital in the ?pekyolu district of Van, the Van Governor's Office said in a statement.  

The injured people were all vaccinated against rabies at hospital and an investigation into the incident has been opened. 

A village in southeastern Turkey has been declared quarantine for six months over suspicion of rabies.

Bozhöyük, a village in the southeastern province of Ad?yaman, was quarantined on May 25, after 19-year-old Elif Karata?, a Bozhöyük resident, was bit by a dog infected with rabies.