Resumen de Exotic diseases: Rabies confirmed in an illegally imported dog in France

• A CASE of rabies has been confirmed in a seven-month-old dog in the Loire, Rhone-Alpes region of France. The dog was reported to have bitten several people and another dog before it was presented to a veterinarian.

  Reporting the case to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) on May 22, Loic Evain, France's chief veterinary officer, said that the diagnosis had been confirmed by the Pasteur Institute in Paris on May 21. The dog had been illegally brought to France from Hungary in late December 2014, when it was younger than the minimum age permitted; it also had no vaccination or identification. It was placed under surveillance by the French authorities, but was taken to Algeria by its owners from April 21 to May 7, ‘again without respecting the regulations on movements of domestic carnivores’. It was reported to have run away while in Algeria....