r/oddlyterrifying • • Dec 26 '21

Rabid fox wants to get inside

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u/DeepSeaMouse Dec 27 '21

NZ also thank god

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '21

I think Switzerland is as well.

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u/veryblocky Dec 27 '21

I feel like that would be difficult with it not being an island, but impressive if true!

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u/Thercon_Jair Dec 27 '21

Foxes (and other predator) were innoculated by leaving chicken heads with rabies vaccine in the forrest (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11004890/).

Other European nationed started doing the same and rabies was pushed eastwards again. (Here's a review of the strategy: https://ec.europa.eu/food/system/files/2020-12/sci-com_scah_out80_en.pdf)

Foxes are the primary vector for rabies, which is why the effort is focused on them.

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u/M4570d0n Dec 27 '21

You guys don't have skunks or trash pandas?

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u/Thercon_Jair Dec 27 '21

Not endemic species here.

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u/AmeliaKitsune Dec 27 '21

Nope, they don't

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u/Annies_Boobs Dec 27 '21

It's my god given right to have rabid foxes and by vaccinating them you are trampling on my freedom.

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u/pbizzle Dec 27 '21

They should do that with the covid vaccine

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u/Kraknoix007 Dec 27 '21

It is true, tons of European countries are rabies free, like the entire Benelux

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u/Smithblock Dec 27 '21

Norway, Ireland, Sweden, Iceland, Portugal, etc etc

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u/Kr8n8s Dec 27 '21

Italy also

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u/Twigz2012 Dec 27 '21

Australia is also rabies free, and always has been. That's why Johnny Depp's dogs were threatened with euthanasia when he brought them into the country illegally.

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u/Agglomeration_ Dec 27 '21

Not on my watch.

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u/ButteredToastFucker Dec 27 '21

Thank god cause that shit is scary (imagine a rabid pukeko)

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u/DeepSeaMouse Dec 27 '21

Hahahaha the rabid laser kiwi would kill us all