The history of rabies in Europe is particularly interesting. Rabies has been eradicated between 80's and 90's from France, Finland, Belgium, Switzerland, etc wh

The history of rabies in Europe is particularly interesting. Rabies has been eradicated between 80's and 90's from France, Finland, Belgium, Switzerland, etc when the countries started to develop programs to vaccinate the main wild reservoir (and is not a bat, it was the red fox). The problem was reduced by an 80% or eradicated in many countries. Currently things are starting to became more complex because we have a new actor coming from the east that is basically an European coyote, the golden jackal and because the 2008 crisis hit hard reintroducing the problem in Greece. Poland had problems with rabies also but vaccination of wild carnivores worked really well when culling failed loudly. Is the way to do it.