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Volume 22, Number 7—July 2016
Dispatch

Travel-Associated Rabies in Pets and Residual Rabies Risk, Western Europe

Florence Ribadeau-DumasComments to Author , Florence Cliquet, Philippe Gautret, Emmanuelle Robardet, Claude Le Pen, and Hervé Bourhy
Author affiliations: Université Paris Dauphine, Paris, France (F. Ribadeau-Dumas, C. Le Pen); Institut Pasteur, Paris (F. Ribadeau-Dumas, H. Bourhy); French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety, Malzéville, France (F. Cliquet, E. Robardet); Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Marseille, Marseille, France (P. Gautret); Aix Marseille University, Marseille (P. Gautret)

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Table 1

Transport mode and origin of 21 pets brought from countries enzootic for rabies to western Europe, 2000–2013

Country†
 No. pets without signs of rabies
No. days of pet contagiousness for rabies attributed to pet transport
Estimation of probability in the event of contact on a given day with a pet that is contagious for rabies attributed to 
pet transport
Pets without 
rabies signs
Total
 Total
Total
 Dogs
 Cats
 Total
 Dogs
 Cats
 Total
 Dogs
 Cats
 Total, PA‡
 Dogs, PAD§
 Cats, PAC
Belgium 16 16 0 5 5 0 21 21 0 1.38 × 10–9 3.32 × 10–9 0
France 91 81 10 67 63 4 158 144 14 1.79 × 10–9 3.99 × 10–9 2.69 × 10–10
Germany 32 32 0 31 31 0 63 63 0 9.83 × 10–10 2.50 × 10–9 0
Ireland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
The Netherlands 1 1 0 4 4 0 5 5 0 2.41 × 10–10 7.05 × 10–10 0
Portugal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Spain 22 22 0 6 6 0 28 28 0 7.28 × 10–10 1.25 × 10–9 0
Switzerland 10 10 0 5 5 0 15 15 0 1.62 × 10–10 7.10 × 10–9 0
United Kingdom 6 6 0 3 3 0 9 9 0 1.18 × 10–10 2.37 × 10–10 0
Total 178 168 10 121 117 4 299 285 14 NA NA NA
Mean 18 17 1 12 12 0 30 29 1 7.52 × 10–10 1.57 × 10–9# 6.48 × 10–11

*NA, not applicable.
†We considered only countries in western Europe with a population >1 million persons.
‡PA, calculated risk that a given pet is rabid on a given day in a country in western Europe relative to pet transport.
§PAC, calculated risk that a given cat is rabid on a given day in a country in western Europe relative to pet transport.
¶PAD, calculated risk that a given dog is rabid on a given day in a country in western Europe relative to pet transport.
#PAD was lower if the dog had no signs of rabies (9.25 x 10−10–1.03 x 10−10 for dogs with no signs of rabies and 6.44 x 10−9–6.44 x 10−6 for dogs with signs of rabies assuming that 90%–99.99% had no signs of rabies on a given day).

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