Rabies is far from eradicated in the United States.
True.
It’s estimated that 5% of all bats carry it. That’s one out of 20.
Fortunatley, the bats usually die before they can transmit the disease except for vampire bats which habitat Central and South America.
In the Northeast U.S. there is still an epidemic in racoons.
We don’t have many cases in humans in the U.S. thanks to rabies vacines for cats and dogs.
Animal Shelters are now importing dogs into the US from the Carribean and Mexico. These animals are occasionally infected with rabies. This has become a problem in the last few years. Animal shelters need to import animals because there IS NO STRAY DOG PROBLEM in the northeast US because most people spay or neuter their dogs. Therefore, to meet demand they have for “rescue” dogs they need to import them from out of the country or atleast out of state.