HL Deb 19 April 1999 vol 599 cc146-8WA
Lord Shore of Stepney

asked Her Majesty's Government:

1 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 21998 Total
Austria 1,786 1,890 2,514 2,460 1,117 675 254 95 14 8 2 10,815
Belgium 515 842 144 29 34 2 61 213 8 9 1 1,858
Denmark 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 8 13 25
Finland 63 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 69
France 2,223 4,214 2,984 32,166 1,285 261 99 40 2 3 3 13,280
Germany 2,628 46,824 53,009 3,599 1,425 845 1,378 856 153 86 66 20,869
Greece 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Italy 21 655 0 4 23 82 36 11 71 0 0 233
Luxembourg 4 139 64 16 2 1 1 15 17 2 0 261
Netherlands 14 22 22 12 8 10 1 84 5 913 6 117
Portugal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Spain 0 6 0 4 12 0 3 6 1 5 7 1044
Sweden 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 7,254 13,998 8,737 8,290 3,906 1,876 1,836 1,241 201 134 98 47,571
1 Source: Rabies Bulletin Europe, WHO Collaboration Centre for Rabies Surveillance and Research, Tübingen, Germany.
2 Covers the period January-September 1998 only; figures for the fourth quarter of 1998 have not yet been published.
3 One case in a human imported from Mexico.
4 This includes 3,596 cases which occurred in the former German Democratic Republic during 1989.
5 This figure includes the rabies cases in the former German Democratic Republic for the fourth quarter only.
6 One case in a dog imported from the Ivory Coast.
7 Case in a human imported from Nepal.
8 One case was in a fox imported by a dealer
9 An additional 21 animals suspected of rabies could not be tested as they were decayed.
10 Thirty-eight of these cases occurred in the Spanish territories in North Africa.

How many cases of rabies have been reported in the 13 continental countries of the European Union in each of the last 10 years. [HL1915]

Lord Donoughue

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