US Declared Canine-Rabies Free: CDC Announces at Inaugural World Rabies Day Symposium

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of Enterprise Communication.
• Description:
  For Immediate Release: September 7, 2007 ; US Declared Canine-Rabies Free ; CDC Announces at Inaugural World Rabies Day Symposium ; For the last several decades, state and local public health authorities in the United States have been working tirelessly on the prevention and control of rabies. Coincident with the recognition of World Rabies Day, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has formally declared the elimination of the type of rabies previously found in dogs in the United States. This declaration is supported by animal rabies surveillance nationally. ; "The elimination of canine rabies in the United States represents one of the major public health success stories in the last 50 years," stated Dr. Charles Rupprecht, Chief of the CDC Rabies Program. "However, there is still much work to be done to prevent and control rabies globally."
• Subjects:
  • Public Health
  • Rabies
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Press Release
• Place as Subject:
  United States
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/155517/cdc_155517_DS1.pdf
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  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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