France has been free of rabies for a year, the longest period since the beginning of the European epidemic in 1968. The success is the result of a 10-year vaccination campaign in which the countryside was littered with fishmeal pellets containing a live weakened rabies virus. A country can officially declare itself “rabies free” after two years without the disease.
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