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VetBooks.ir TABLE 3.1 Abbreviations for Countries Used in et al., 2015), usually followed by sheep and goats. The
last two are also the most common species implicated in
Table 3.2
poisoning incidents in Greece (Roubies et al., 2008;
AT Austria Guitart et al., 2010a). Generally, poultry and pigs are
rarely involved in poisoning episodes, and minor percen-
BE Belgium
tages are also reported for exotic animals and rabbits
CZ Czech Republic (often included in the group “other species”), although
these species are becoming more present in daily calls.
DE Germany
As far as wildlife, birds, especially waterfowl and
DK Denmark
raptors, are more commonly reported than mammals as
EL Greece victims of poisoning (Samouris et al., 2007; Guitart et al.,
ES Spain 2010b; Delahay and Spray, 2015). Apart from specific
toxic environmental disasters, deliberate primary or sec-
FI Finland
ondary poisoning incidents are of concern in all European
FR France
countries and mainly involve birds of prey such as com-
IE Ireland mon buzzards and red kites (Guitart et al., 2010b;
Vandenbroucke et al., 2010; Berny et al., 2015). Indeed,
IT Italy
the proportion of wildlife cases at the ToxLab diagnostic
NL Netherlands
laboratory, a part of the national wildlife disease surveil-
PL Poland lance network (SAGIR), is very high (Berny, 2007; Berny
PT Portugal et al., 2015). As this network is supported financially by
hunters, it mostly deals with game species, but an increas-
SE Sweden
ing number of cases regarding protected and endangered
UK United Kingdom
species has also been recorded (Berny and Gaillet, 2008).
A Spanish national program (Programa Antı ´ doto)
reported several cases of deliberate poisoning of wild

FIGURE 3.1 Distribution of species (including bait) in poisoning cases at the Belgian Poison Center (BPC calls, n 5 21,120 from 2010 to 2016), the
French Animal Poison Control Center (CNITV calls, n 5 115,502 from 2010 to 2016), the Belgian Laboratory of Toxicology of the Faculty of
Veterinary Medicine from Ghent University (LTGU lab, n 5 1155 cases from 2010 to 2016), and the French College of Veterinary Medicine
Diagnostic Toxicology Laboratory in Lyon (CNITV lab, n 5 7278 cases from 2010 to 2016).