{"topic_id":"uk_rabies_disease_status","category":"rabies","context":"---\ntopic_id: uk_rabies_disease_status\ncategory: rabies\ntitle: \"Rabies in the UK — disease status, notifiable disease, clinical signs, bat lyssavirus, human risk (DEFRA/APHA guidance)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"UK Government (GOV.UK / DEFRA / APHA) — 'Rabies: how to spot and report the disease in animals', landed 2026-08-12 via Tokyo relay\"\nsource_file: pdf-parsed/gov-eu-landing/govuk_rabies.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-08-12\ntokens_estimated: 290\nverified: true\nverification: c1_substring\nsource_document: \"GOV.UK — Rabies: how to spot and report the disease in animals (DEFRA & APHA)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"UK Government (DEFRA & Animal and Plant Health Agency)\"\n  title: \"Rabies: how to spot and report the disease in animals\"\n  url: \"https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rabies\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-08-12\"\n  ref: \"\"\n  doc_type: \"official web page\"\n  needs_review: false\nlicense: open_government_licence_v3\n---\n\nRabies is a mammalian disease: `Rabies affects all mammals (warm blooded animals with backbones that produce milk and have fur or hair) including dogs and humans.` The UK is effectively rabies-free in terrestrial animals: `Rabies was eradicated from all UK animals except bats in 1922.` and `The last case in an imported animal outside of quarantine was in 1970.`\n\nIt is a legal obligation to report: `Rabies is a notifiable animal disease .` A residual risk remains in wildlife: `Although rabies has been eradicated from the UK, a strain of the disease continues to be present in bats in this country.` and `Bat rabies, or European bat lyssavirus is very rare among bats in the UK.`\n\nHuman prognosis is severe: `The disease is fatal for humans once signs of the disease appear. It can only be prevented if you are treated soon after exposure.`\n\nRelated: `gb_pet_import_rules` and `eu_pet_movement_rules` (rabies vaccination/movement controls that keep the UK rabies-free).\n\nSource: `pdf-parsed/gov-eu-landing/govuk_rabies.txt` (GOV.UK / DEFRA / APHA, landed 2026-08-12).\n## Claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)\n- `Rabies affects all mammals (warm blooded animals with backbones that produce milk and have fur or hair) including dogs and humans.`\n- `Rabies was eradicated from all UK animals except bats in 1922.`\n- `The last case in an imported animal outside of quarantine was in 1970.`\n- `Rabies is a notifiable animal disease .`\n- `Although rabies has been eradicated from the UK, a strain of the disease continues to be present in bats in this country.`\n- `Bat rabies, or European bat lyssavirus is very rare among bats in the UK.`\n- `The disease is fatal for humans once signs of the disease appear.`\n","sources":["Mixed: UK Government — Rabies: how to spot and report the disease in animals (retrieved 2026-08-12)"],"source":{"authority":"Mixed: UK Government","title":"Rabies: how to spot and report the disease in animals","url":"https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rabies","retrieved":"2026-08-12","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"GOV.UK — Rabies: how to spot and report the disease in animals (DEFRA & APHA)","verification_file":"pdf-parsed/gov-eu-landing/govuk_rabies.txt"},"source_document":"GOV.UK — Rabies: how to spot and report the disease in animals (DEFRA & APHA)","source_file":"pdf-parsed/gov-eu-landing/govuk_rabies.txt","trust":{"authority_tier":"ungraded","fidelity":"verbatim","license":"open_government_licence_v3","display_grade":"pending"},"tokens_estimated":290,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}