Rabies Ahead

[Somewhatfoolish]

I was just reading "Know your traffic signs" as I haven't read it probably since I passed my test, and an example sign there is "Animal Disease Rabies Infected Area Ahead".

Does such a sign actually exist anywhere in the UK? I know there was a rabies case up in the Orkneys or somewhere a few years ago.

[Riley Blue]

Somewhatfoolish said:

I was just reading "Know your traffic signs" as I haven't read it probably since I passed my test, and an example sign there is "Animal Disease Rabies Infected Area Ahead".

Does such a sign actually exist anywhere in the UK? I know there was a rabies case up in the Orkneys or somewhere a few years ago.

I should imagine, like Foot & Mouth disease, such signs would be erected when and where required.

The NHS says:There have been no cases of human rabies acquired in the UK since 1902, apart from a case of rabies acquired in a bat-handler from an infected bat in 2002. The last recorded case of rabies in the UK was in 2012. The patient, who died, contracted the disease after being bitten by a dog in India.