Three cases of animal rabies were detected in Crimea

Since the beginning of the year, three cases of rabies among animals have been identified in Crimea: two cats and one dog fell ill. About this in the commentary RIA Novosti Crimea told the First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Veterinary Medicine Anastasia Lisovskaya-Chudinovich.

This year, three cases of rabies in the Republic of Crimea have already been identified: one dog and two cats, — She reported.

In the press center of RIA Novosti, Crimea Lisovskaya-Chudinovich noted that, in her opinion, homeless sterilized animals are a “buffer”, in particular, protecting the city from wild animals.

Today we have an increase in the fox population and a very large leap of rabies among wild carnivorous. And animals without owners, in particular, dogs, are still a buffer between wild and urban fury— she concluded.

Over the past in Crimea, 26 cases of rabies were recorded. The virus was detected in nine dogs, seven cats, six foxes, two raccoon dogs, one wolf and a cow, Lisovskaya-Chudinovich clarified.

Earlier, Chairman of the State Committee of Veterinary Medicine of the Republic of Crimea Valery Ivanov toldthat if earlier in the region more and more foxes were sick in the region, now both dogs and cats. The blame for the number of animal vaccinations brought into veterinary points.

source: RIA Novosti Crimea