Epizootological features of animal rabies in the Central, Central black earth and Volga-Vyatka economic regions in 2013-2017
The article deals with the current epizootic situation of rabies in three large, bordering on each other, economic regions: Central, Central black earth and Volga- Vyatka. The territory of these areas is characterized by persistent epizootic problems and the number of cases of rabies has been leading in recent years. The spatiotemporal dynamics of the manifestation of rabies epizootics was determined, the species composition of the sick animals was investigated. This work was carried out at the laboratory of epidemiology, FEDERAL state budgetary VIEW them. I. R. Kovalenko. For carrying out the analysis the electronic inventory of cases of rabies of animals developed by laboratory which was monthly replenished with the data provided by veterinary services of subjects of the Russian Federation was used. The electronic cadastre of the epizootological situation on rabies is built on the MS Access database platform. The inventory is combined with the geographic information system (GIS) project on the ArcGIS platform, which allowed mapping of epizootic foci for different periods of time.