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ReviewTransboundary and emerging diseases2023

Two Sylvatic Rabies Re-Emergences in Central-Eastern Europe over the 2021-2022 Period: An Unprecedented Situation in Recent Years.

Emmanuelle Robardet, Marcin Smreczak, Anna Orlowska, Peter Malik, Alexandra Nándori, Zuzana Dirbáková, Slavomír Jerg, Oleksii Rudoi, Ivan Polupan, Oxana Groza and 4 more

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Review in Transboundary and emerging diseases, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Rabies Reemergence, Central Europe, 2022-2024.Emerging infectious diseases · 2026
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  7. The European Union One Health 2024 Zoonoses Report.EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2025
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  8. Death in the EU/EEA from autochthonous human rabies, Romania, July 2025: a call for action.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Emmanuelle RobardetAnses, Nancy Laboratory for Rabies and Wildlife, EURL for Rabies, Bâtiment H, Technopôle Agricole et Vétérinaire, CS 40 009, 54220, Malzéville Cedex, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0214-4716
Marcin SmreczakNational Veterinary Research Institute, NRL for Rabies, 57 Partyzantow Avenue, Pulawy 24-100, Poland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5957-846X
Anna OrlowskaNational Veterinary Research Institute, NRL for Rabies, 57 Partyzantow Avenue, Pulawy 24-100, Poland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5781-115X
Peter MalikNational Food Chain Safety Office VDD, NRL for Rabies, Tabornok u 2, Budapest 1143, Hungary.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3335-1036
Alexandra NándoriNational Food Chain Safety Office VDD, NRL for Rabies, Tabornok u 2, Budapest 1143, Hungary.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0001-0595
Zuzana DirbákováState Veterinary and Food Institute, Veterinary Institute Zvolen, Pod Drahami 960 86, 918, Zvolen, Slovakia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0325-1007
Slavomír JergState Veterinary and Food Institute, Veterinary Institute Zvolen, Pod Drahami 960 86, 918, Zvolen, Slovakia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0444-210X
Oleksii RudoiThe State Scientific and Research Institute of Laboratory Diagnostics and Veterinary Sanitary Expertise, 30 Donetska Street, Kyiv 03151, Ukraine.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3665-3922
Ivan PolupanThe State Scientific and Research Institute of Laboratory Diagnostics and Veterinary Sanitary Expertise, 30 Donetska Street, Kyiv 03151, Ukraine.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3659-7393
Oxana GrozaRepublican Center of Veterinary Diagnostic, 3 Street Murelor Chisinau, Chisinau, Moldova.
Serghei ArsenievRepublican Center of Veterinary Diagnostic, 3 Street Murelor Chisinau, Chisinau, Moldova.
Florica BarbuceanuFaculty of Veterinary Medicine, Splaiul Independentei, 105, Bucharest, Romania.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9929-2602
Vlad VutaFaculty of Veterinary Medicine, Splaiul Independentei, 105, Bucharest, Romania.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2035-4343
Evelyne Picard-MeyerAnses, Nancy Laboratory for Rabies and Wildlife, EURL for Rabies, Bâtiment H, Technopôle Agricole et Vétérinaire, CS 40 009, 54220, Malzéville Cedex, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9122-9027

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The implementations of coordinated, standardised, and sustained oral rabies vaccination (ORV) campaigns over large areas have led to the almost elimination of sylvatic rabies from the European Union (EU) territory at the approach of 2020. The annual number of rabies cases reported within EU territory indeed dropped from around 13,000 cases in 1990 to less than 10 cases over the 2017-2019 period. Unfortunately, since 2020, the EU territory has faced two major rabies re-emergence events of rabies lyssavirus in non-flying animals. The first sylvatic rabies outbreak, already described, occurred in 2021 and 2022 in Poland in the Mazowieckie voivodeship, involving the Central Europe variant, while the second one affecting Romania, Hungaria, and Slovakia, increased considerably at the end of 2022 and involved the North East Europe variant only. Thus, Hungary and Slovakia that did not record a single case since 5-7 years, respectively, faced new rabies outbreaks in 2022. This article, therefore, presents these two epidemiological events and discusses the importance and challenges of maintaining ORV programmes and immune belts in the long term, particularly in a complicated context of a pandemic affecting organisation of human societies and of geopolitical conflicts.

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Communicable Diseases, EmergingDisease OutbreaksRabiesAnimalsEurope, EasternHumansRabies VaccinesRabies Vaccines

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PMID40303724
PMCPMC12016682

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