Veterinary & Animal Tech · Recorded milestone

Oral rabies bait for wildlife

Recorded year1978

Switzerland drops vaccine-laced baits for foxes, the first time wild animals are vaccinated in the field; rabies is later cleared from western Europe.

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Mass rabies vaccination of dogsRecorded · 1921enables

Led to

Wildlife vaccinated by droneForecast · ~2037enables

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.