Figure 1.

Map of the study area in southern Québec (indicated by a black rectangle on the map in the top left corner), Canada, showing the locations of the raccoon rabies variant (RRV) cases documented in raccoons by the enhanced provincial surveillance programme and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s passive surveillance programme (i.e. following human and pet postexposure investigations) in 2006 (filled squares, n = 4), 2007 (filled triangles, n = 59) and 2008 (filled circles, n = 26). The ‘stars’ indicate the centre of sampling sites.