Posted on 06/19/2021 6:04:14 PM PDT by blueplum
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has launched a multistate public health investigation after at least 12 people were exposed to a dog, imported from Azerbaijan by a rescue group, that tested positive for a rabies variant.
The dog was among a group of 33 canines and one cat that arrived at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on June 10. None of the other animals have tested positive, but all are considered to have been exposed...
...According to testing by the CDC, the dog was infected with rabies before it arrived in the United States. Other animals in the shipment were transported to California, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
...The news comes a month before a year-long CDC ban on imported dogs from roughly 100 countries considered at high risk for rabies is scheduled to take effect...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
There are plenty of dogs that need rescuing right here. And they will have been vaccinated against rabies.
We don’t like to watch the end of Old Yeller over and over again. Travis did what he had to do. Even though it hurt him deeply. Sorry, love that movie.
I think that I lived in the Old West in a former life.
Exactly. Please see my previous post. I think it’s 29?
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