ЭПИЗООТОЛОГИЯ И МЕРЫ БОРЬБЫ С БЕШЕНСТВОМ В КОРОЧАНСКОМ УЕЗДЕ КУРСКОЙ ГУБЕРНИИ В КОНЦЕ XIX – НАЧАЛЕ XX ВЕКОВ

Abstract

In the article the epizootic situation on rabies in one of the districts of the Kursk region (now it is the territory of the Belgorod region) is analyzed. The illness had a wide circulation, but for a variety of causes not all sick animals were registered, and dogs and cats in particular. A large number of vagrant dogs were the main reason for emergence and distribution of rabies, and rejection of any measures for their destruction. The first regulations on the prevention of disease and the rabies termination in the region were developed by the first congress of veterinarians of the Kursk region in 1894. According to these rules sick animals with rabies were killed immediately. All dogs and cats suspected of a disease of rabies, and also bitten by mad animals, were killed immediately too. In some years rabies in the district threatened to accept general character. All this suggested the need for urgent methods to combat the disease