A new outbreak of fox rabies at the Russian–Mongolian border

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<正>Dear Editor,Lake Baikal and its neighboring territories are an intermediate zone for the"steppe"and"arctic-like"rabies virus lineages in Russia.After the elimination of dog-mediated rabies during the early 1980s,this area remained rabies-free for over 25–30 years.A sudden reappearance of rabies occurred in this zone in the Republic of Buryatia in 2011–2012.A marginal part of the Mongolian steppe penetrates the Siberian taiga forests in this area,and human and animal rabies have been repeatedly recorded in the Republic of Buryatia from the end of the