{"id":564567,"date":"2021-06-15T13:51:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T17:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=564567"},"modified":"2021-06-15T13:51:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T17:51:53","slug":"cdc-declares-rabies-new-potential-public-health-threat-bans-dogs-from-over-100-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-declares-rabies-new-potential-public-health-threat-bans-dogs-from-over-100-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Declares Rabies New Potential Public Health Threat, Bans Dogs From Over 100 Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcdc-declares-rabies-new-potential-public-health-threat-bans-dogs-from-over-100-countries%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=564567&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1E169892-55CB-456E-B2EB-0FB615718ED3_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">On Monday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that it will be prohibiting dogs from 113 countries from entering the United States over concerns of a potential increase in rabies in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The new measure will take effect on July 14, the CDC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/importation\/bringing-an-animal-into-the-united-states\/high-risk-dog-ban-frn.html\">noted<\/a>. In an announcement, the agency said that it will be temporarily suspending bringing dogs into the country from \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/importation\/bringing-an-animal-into-the-united-states\/high-risk.html\"><span class=\"s1\">countries<\/span><\/a>\u00a0classified by CDC as high risk for dog rabies,\u201d and \u201ccountries that are NOT at high risk if the dogs have been in high-risk countries during the previous 6 months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The CDC estimated that \u201c6% of all dogs imported into the Unites States arrive from countries at high risk for dog rabies. Inadequately vaccinated dogs are not protected against rabies and are a public health threat.\u201d The banned countries included India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, China, and Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It added that rabies is a fatal disease in animals and humans, \u201cand the importation of even one rabid dog could result in transmission to humans, pets, and wildlife.\u201d The agency noted that dogs from countries that have been specified as \u201chigh-risk\u201d can come into the country with the agency\u2019s advance written approval in the form of a \u201cCDC Dog Import Permit,\u201d but no appeals will be permitted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe\u2019re doing this to make sure that we protect the health and safety of dogs that are imported into the United States, as well as protect the public\u2019s health,\u201d\u00a0<span class=\"s2\">Dr. Emily Pieracci<\/span>\u00a0of the CDC told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2021\/06\/14\/1005697173\/dog-import-ban-countries-rabies-fake-records?origin=NOTIFY\"><span class=\"s3\">NPR<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Pieracci said that along with a spike in dog adoptions sparked by the stay-at-home orders and coronavirus pandemic, there were more cases where dogs came into the United States who had fraudulent or falsified rabies documents. \u201cDuring 2020, the CDC discovered more than 450 dogs arriving in the U.S. with falsified or fraudulent rabies certificates, a 52% increase compared with the previous two years, she says,\u201d per NPR.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cEarly on in the pandemic, the shelters were reporting record-low numbers because everybody was adopting pandemic puppies. And so there is a possibility that there may be a correlation between empty shelters here driving an increased demand to purchase puppies overseas,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">She noted that the high demand for dogs might have encouraged breeders to go around the system, particularly in areas that were dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and not doing as good of a job at staying on top of their vaccination efforts against rabies.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cGiven the impact that COVID has had on vaccination programs around the world, we\u2019re not sure what the rabies landscape is going to look like in the future. But we are definitely concerned that there could be an increased risk of importing a rabid dog,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/rabies\/location\/usa\/surveillance\/human_rabies.html\"><span class=\"s3\">CDC<\/span><\/a>, 25 cases of human rabies have been reported in the United States between the years 2009-2018. \u201cSeven of these infections were acquired outside of the U.S. and its territories,\u201d the agency noted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The increase in pet adoptions during the pandemic led to reports that some people were taking their dogs back to the adoption centers once the world began to reopen, but according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/22\/us\/dog-adoptions-pandemic.html\"><span class=\"s3\">reporting<\/span><\/a> by The New York Times, fewer have been returned than was originally assumed.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Times noted that in April, there was an increase in pet returns of almost 80% when compared with April 2020, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.petpoint.com\/Portals\/Petpoint\/pdfs\/reportdata\/2021\/PetPointReport-April2021.pdf\"><span class=\"s4\">PetPoint<\/span><\/a>. \u201cBut many shelters curtailed operations in April 2020, meaning fewer pets could be returned that month. And the numbers were still well below the 20,289 dogs that were surrendered in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.petpoint.com\/Portals\/Petpoint\/pdfs\/reportdata\/2019\/PetPoint%20Report%20-%20April%202019.pdf\"><span class=\"s4\">April 2019<\/span><\/a>, before the coronavirus upended life and commerce,\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span>member<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that it will be prohibiting dogs from 113 countries from entering the United States over concerns of a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280342,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1E169892-55CB-456E-B2EB-0FB615718ED3_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"CDC Declares Rabies New Potential Public Health Threat, Bans Dogs From Over 100 Countries","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1E169892-55CB-456E-B2EB-0FB615718ED3_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"CDC Declares Rabies New Potential Public Health Threat, Bans Dogs From Over 100 Countries","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}