PART II U.K. SURVEILLANCE, ERADICATION PROGRAMMES, DISEASE-FREE STATUS

CHAPTER 2 U.K. Eradication programmes for category B and C diseases of terrestrial animals

Section 3 U.K. Provisions for eradication programmes for infection with RABV

Article 36 U.K. Disease control measures in the event of confirmation of infection with RABV

When infection with RABV is confirmed, the competent authority shall take measures to prevent further transmission of the disease to animals and to humans, for which:

(a)

it shall conduct an epidemiological enquiry, which shall include the identification of the RABV strain involved, to identify the likely source of the infection and epidemiological links;

(b)

it shall, unless it considers further investigations are necessary, rule out an infection with RABV in animals with an epidemiological link when:

(i)

a minimum period of 3 months has lapsed since the epidemiological link with the confirmed case occurred; and

(ii)

no clinical signs have been detected in those animals;

(c)

it shall, when it considers it necessary, take one or more of the measures laid down in Articles 34 and 35;

(d)

it shall ensure that carcasses of confirmed cases of infected wild animals are disposed of or processed in accordance with the rules laid down in Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009.