Rabies Reemergence, Central Europe, 2022–2024
Emmanuelle Robardet

, Marcin Smreczak, Anna Orłowska, Peter Malik, Alexandra Nándori, Zuzana Dirbáková, Rastislav Odaloš, Oleksii Rudoi, Ivan Polupan, Oxana Groza, Serghei Arseniev, Florica Barbuceanu, Vlad Vuta, and Evelyne Picard-Meyer
Author affiliation: ANSES, Nancy Laboratory for Rabies and Wildlife, European Union Reference Laboratory for Rabies, Bâtiment H, Technopôle Agricole et Vétérinaire, Malzéville, France (E. Robardet, E. Picard-Meyer); National Veterinary Research Institute, National Reference Laboratory for Rabies, Pulawy, Poland (M. Smreczak, A. Orłowska); National Food Chain Safety Office Veterinary Diagnostic Directorate, National Reference Laboratory for Rabies, Budapest, Hungary (P. Malik, A. Nándori); State Veterinary and Food Institute, Veterinary Institute Zvolen, Zvolen, Slovakia (Z. Dirbáková, R. Odaloš); The State Scientific and Research Institute of Laboratory Diagnostics and Veterinary Sanitary Expertise, Kyiv, Ukraine (O. Rudoï, I. Polupan); Republican Centre for Veterinary Diagnoses, Chisinau, Moldova (O. Grozda, S. Arseniev); Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Splaiul Independentei, Bucharest (F. Barbuceanu); Institute for Diagnosis and Animal Health, National Reference Laboratory for Rabies and World Organisation for Animal Health Reference Laboratory for Rabies, Bucharest, Romania (F. Barbuceanu, V. Vuta)
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Figure 3. Distance from Ukraine and Moldova of cases detected in Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, January 2023–September 2025. Most cases were located <50 km from borders with Ukraine or Moldova (blue dashed line); almost all were <100 km from the border (red dashed line).
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