The CDC’s proposed regulation creates additional safeguards to prevent rabies from arriving from overseas. By the time it reaches the brain and symptoms appear, the disease is usually fatal. Exposure to infected dogs causes 99% of human rabies deaths worldwide.Īfter entering the body – usually via the bite of an infected animal – the virus travels through the nerves to the brain, where it multiplies and causes inflammation. entry requirements.”Īlthough rabies among humans is rare in the United States, the virus kills about 59,000 people around the world each year, most of them children bitten by dogs, according to the CDC. government’s ability to verify that imported dogs have met U.S. “These updates would establish an importation system designed to reduce fraud and improve the U.S.
“The proposed updates aim to protect the public’s health by preventing the reintroduction of dog rabies into the United States,” CDC spokesperson David Daigle said.
The CDC says that dog rabies was eliminated in the United States in 2007, but the virus is still endemic in over 100 countries. Revisiting guidelines last revised in 1956, the proposed updates introduce a new set of requirements for people looking to bring in pets from countries with a high risk for rabies. For the first time in nearly 70 years, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is proposing a change in how dogs are imported into the United States.
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