Interim Questions and Answers on Embargo and Prohibition of Certain Rodents and Prairie Dogs [Monday, June 30, 2003, 21:45 EDT (9:45 PM EDT)]

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  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Health Alert Network (HAN)
• Description:
  Monday, June 30, 2003, 21:45 EDT (9:45 PM EDT)
  
  CDCHAN-00148-03-06-30-ADV–N
  
  On June 11, 2003, CDC and FDA issued a joint order announcing an immediate embargo on the importation of all rodents from Africa due to the potential that these rodents can spread monkeypox virus infection to other animal species and to humans. The joint order also banned within the United States any sale, offering for distribution, transport, or release into the environment, of prairie dogs and six specific African rodent species implicated in the current monkeypox outbreak.
  
  
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• Subjects:
  Animals Commerce/legislation & Jurisprudence Communicable Disease Control/legislation & Jurisprudence Mpox (monkeypox)/prevention & Control Rodentia Sciuridae
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  HAN Health Alert Network
• Source:
  HAN ; 147
• Series:
  Health Alert Network
• Subseries:
  CDC Health Advisory
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Alert
• Place as Subject:
  Africa
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Issue:
  00147
• Collection(s):
  Health Alert Network (HAN)
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