Rabies in Endangered Ethiopian Wolves

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2005 Jan 25

PMID 15663865

Citations 43

Authors

Deborah A Randall

Stuart D Williams

Ivan V Kuzmin

Charles E Rupprecht

Lucy A Tallents

Zelealem Tefera

Kifle Argaw

Fekadu Shiferaw

Darryn L Knobel

Claudio Sillero-Zubiri

M Karen Laurenson

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Abstract

With rabies emerging as a particular threat to wild canids, we report on a rabies outbreak in a subpopulation of endangered Ethiopian wolves in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia, in 2003 and 2004. Parenteral vaccination of wolves was used to manage the outbreak.

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