Editing Rabies (section)

===Europe===

Either no or very few cases of rabies are reported each year in Europe; cases are contracted both during travel and in Europe.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ecdc.europa.eu/sites/portal/files/documents/AER_for_2015-rabies.pdf|title=SURVEILLANCE REPORT - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2015 - Rabies, ECDC (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control)| access-date=30 August 2018}}</ref>

In Switzerland the disease was virtually eliminated after scientists placed chicken heads laced with live [[attenuated vaccine]] in the [[Swiss Alps]].<ref name="Grambo"/> The foxes of Switzerland, proven to be the [[Portal:Main|main]] source of rabies in the country, ate the chicken heads and immunized themselves.<ref name="Grambo"/><ref name="thefactsource.com">{{cite web |url=https://thefactsource.com/switzerland-rabies-epidemic-air-dropping-chicken-heads/ |title=Switzerland ended rabies epidemic by air dropping vaccinated chicken heads from helicopters / thefactsource.com |access-date=2019-12-10|date=20 November 2019 }}</ref>

Italy, after being declared rabies-free from 1997 to 2008, has witnessed a reemergence of the disease in wild animals in the [[Triveneto]] regions ([[Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol]], [[Veneto]] and [[Friuli-Venezia Giulia]]), due to the spreading of an epidemic in the [[Balkans]] that also affected Austria. An extensive wild animal vaccination campaign eliminated the virus from Italy again, and it regained the rabies-free country status in 2013, the last reported case of rabies being reported in a red fox in early 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.izsvenezie.com/rabies-in-africa-the-resolab-network/ |title=Rabies in Africa: The RESOLAB network |date=29 June 2015 |access-date=2016-04-18 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160803081821/http://www.izsvenezie.com/rabies-in-africa-the-resolab-network/ |archive-date=3 August 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.quotidianosanita.it/governo-e-parlamento/articolo.php?articolo_id=13650 |title=Ministero della Salute: "Italia è indenne dalla rabbia". l'Ultimo caso nel 2011 - Quotidiano Sanità |access-date=2016-04-18 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603183359/http://www.quotidianosanita.it/governo-e-parlamento/articolo.php?articolo_id=13650 |archive-date=3 June 2016 }}</ref>

The United Kingdom has been free of rabies since the early 20th century except for a rabies-like virus in a few [[Daubenton's bat]]s. There has been one fatal case of transmission to a human. There have been four deaths from rabies, transmitted abroad by dog bites, since 2000.  The last infection in the UK occurred in 1922, and the last death from indigenous rabies was in 1902.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/rabies/ |title=Rabies|website=NHS |date=23 February 2017 |access-date= 30 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18188682 |title=Q&A: Rabies|website=BBC News |date=17 April 2015 |access-date= 30 August 2018}}</ref> Unlike many of the other countries of Europe it is protected by being an island, and by strict quarantine procedures.{{cn|date=May 2021}}