Rabies risks in terrestrial animals, by country

Note: bats may carry rabies-like viruses in countries which are declared rabies-free in terrestrial animals. Therefore exposure to bats or their secretions should be considered as a potential rabies risk wherever in the world this has occurred.

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Country names, and levels of risk

Afghanistan	High risk
Africa	High risk
Albania	High risk
Algeria	High risk
American Samoa	Low risk
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	High risk
Andorra	No risk
Angola	High risk
Anguilla	No risk
Antarctica	No risk
Antigua and Barbuda	No risk
Argentina	High risk
Armenia	High risk
Aruba	No risk
Ascension Island	No risk
Australia	No risk
Austria	No risk
Azerbaijan	High risk
Azores	No risk

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Country names, and levels of risk

Bahamas	No risk
Bahrain	Low risk
Balearic islands	No risk
Bali	High risk
Bangladesh	High risk
Barbados	No risk
Belarus	High risk
Belgium	No risk
Belize	High risk
Benin	High risk
Bermuda	No risk
Bhutan	High risk
Bolivia	High risk
Borneo	High risk
Bosnia and Herzegovina	High risk
Botswana	High risk
Brazil	High risk
British Virgin Islands	No risk
Brunei Darussalam	Low risk
Bulgaria	Low risk
Burkina Faso	High risk
Burma	High risk
Burundi	High risk

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Country names, and levels of risk

Cabrera	No risk
Cambodia	High risk
Cameroon	High risk
Canada	Low risk
Canary Islands	No risk
Cape Verde	No risk
Cayman Islands	No risk
Central African Republic	High risk
Chad	High risk
Chile	Low risk
China	High risk
Christmas Island	No risk
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	No risk
Colombia	High risk
Comoros	High risk
Congo (Republic)	High risk
Congo (Democratic Republic of)	High risk
Cook Islands	No risk
Corsica	No risk
Costa Rica	High risk
Côte d’Ivoire	High risk
Croatia	High risk
Cuba	High risk
Cyprus	No risk
Czech Republic, except border with Poland and Slovakia	No risk
Czech Republic, within 50km of border with Poland and Slovakia	Low risk

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Country names, and levels of risk

Democratic Republic of the Congo	High risk
Denmark	No risk
Djibouti	High risk
Dominica	No risk
Dominican Republic	High risk

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Country names, and levels of risk

East Timor	High risk
Easter Island	No risk
Ecuador	High risk
Egypt	High risk
El Salvador	High risk
Equatorial Guinea	High risk
Eritrea	High risk
Estonia	High risk
Ethiopia	High risk

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Country names, and levels of risk

Faeroe Islands	No risk
Falkland Islands	No risk
Fiji	No risk
Finland	No risk
Formentera	No risk
France	No risk
French Guiana	Low risk
French Polynesia	No risk

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Country names, and levels of risk

Gabon	High risk
Galapagos Islands	No risk
Gambia, The	High risk
Georgia	High risk
Germany	No risk
Ghana	High risk
Gibraltar	No risk
Greece - except Epirus, Western Macedonia, Central Macedonia, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Thesssaly	No risk
Greece: Epirus, Western Macedonia, Central Macedonia, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Thesssaly  (see map)	Low risk
Greenland	High risk
Grenada	Low risk
Guadeloupe	No risk
Guam	No risk
Guatemala	High risk
Guinea	High risk
Guinea-Bissau	High risk
Guyana	High risk

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Country names, and levels of risk

Haiti	High risk
Hawaii	No risk
Honduras	High risk
Hong Kong	Low risk
Hungary	High risk

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Country names, and levels of risk

Ibiza	No risk
Iceland	No risk
India	High risk
Indonesia	High risk
Iran	High risk
Iraq	High risk
Ireland	No risk
Israel	High risk
Italy, except NE border regions	No risk
Italy, NE border regions (see map)	Low risk

 

 

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Country names, and levels of risk

Jamaica	No risk
Jan Mayen & Svalbard (Norway)	Low risk
Japan	No risk
Jordan	High risk

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Country names, and levels of risk

Kazakhstan	High risk
Kenya	High risk
Kiribati	Low risk
Korea, North	High risk
Korea, South	High risk
Kosovo	High risk
Kuwait	Low risk
Kyrgyzstan	High risk

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Country names, and levels of risk

Laos	High risk
Latvia	High risk
Lebanon	High risk
Lesotho	High risk
Liberia	High risk
Libya	High risk
Liechtenstein	No risk
Lithuania	High risk
Luxembourg	No risk

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Country names, and levels of risk

Macau SAR	High risk
Macedonia	High risk
Madagascar	High risk
Madeira Islands	No risk
Majorca	No risk
Malawi	High risk
Malaysia	High risk
Maldives	Low risk
Mali	High risk
Malta	No risk
Margarita Island	High risk
Marshall Islands	Low risk
Martinique	No risk
Mauritania	High risk
Mauritius	No risk
Mayotte	High risk
Menorca	No risk
Mexico	High risk
Micronesia	Low risk
Moldova	High risk
Monaco	No risk
Mongolia	High risk
Montenegro	High risk
Montserrat	No risk
Morocco	High risk
Mozambique	High risk
Myanmar (Burma)	High risk

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Country names, and levels of risk

Namibia	High risk
Nauru	Low risk
Nepal	High risk
Netherlands	No risk
Netherlands Antilles	No risk
New Caledonia	No risk
New Zealand	No risk
Nicaragua	High risk
Niger	High risk
Nigeria	High risk
Niue	Low risk
Norfolk Island	No risk
Northern Mariana Islands	No risk
Norway (mainland only)	No risk
Norway (Svalbard archipelago)	Low risk

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Country names, and levels of risk

Oman

High risk

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Country names, and levels of risk

Pakistan	High risk
Palau	No risk
Palestine	High risk
Panama	High risk
Papua New Guinea	Low risk
Paraguay	High risk
Peru	High risk
Philippines	High risk
Pitcairn Islands	No risk
Poland	High risk
Portugal	No risk
Puerto Rico	High risk

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Country names, and levels of risk

Qatar

Low risk

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Country names, and levels of risk

Republic of Korea (S. Korea)	High risk
Reunion	No risk
Romania	High risk
Russian Federation	High risk
Rwanda	High risk

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Country names, and levels of risk

Saint Helena	No risk
Saint Kitts and Nevis	No risk
Saint Lucia	No risk
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	No risk
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	No risk
Samoa	Low risk
San Marino	No risk
Sao Tome & Principe	Low risk
Saudi Arabia	High risk
Senegal	High risk
Serbia	High risk
Seychelles	No risk
Sierra Leone	High risk
Singapore	No risk
Slovakia	High risk
Slovenia	High risk
Solomon Islands	Low risk
Somalia	High risk
South Africa	High risk
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	No risk
Spain - mainland, Balearic and Canary Islands	No risk
Spain - north African territories of Ceuta and Melila	High risk
Sri Lanka	High risk
Sudan (North and South)	High risk
Suriname	High risk
Svalbard archipelago	Low risk
Swaziland	High risk
Sweden	No risk
Switzerland	No risk
Syria	High risk

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Country names, and levels of risk

Tahiti	No risk
Taiwan	No risk
Tajikistan	High risk
Tanzania	High risk
Thailand	High risk
Tibet	High risk
Togo	High risk
Tokelau	No risk
Tonga	Low risk
Trinidad and Tobago	Low risk
Tunisia	High risk
Turkey	High risk
Turkmenistan	High risk
Turks and Caicos Islands	No risk
Tuvalu	Low risk

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Country names, and levels of risk

Uganda	High risk
Ukraine	High risk
United Arab Emirates	Low risk
United Kingdom	No risk
United States of America	Low risk
Uruguay	High risk
Uzbekistan	High risk

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Country names, and levels of risk

Vanuatu	Low risk
Venezuela	High risk
Vietnam	High risk
Virgin Islands	No risk

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Country names, and levels of risk

Wake Island and the US Pacific Islands	No risk
Wallis and Futuna Islands	No risk
Western Sahara	High risk

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Country names, and levels of risk

Yemen

High risk

 

Country names, and levels of risk

Zambia	High risk
Zanzibar	High risk
Zimbabwe	High risk

 

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Last reviewed: 9 April 2013