By Ethan Covey
A CDC-developed mitigation strategy has been successful at ensuring the safety of dogs imported from Egypt to the United States, after concerns of rabies forced an importation ban.
Dog-maintained rabies virus variant (DMRVV) is present in more than 100 countries, and rabies kills an estimated 59,000 people each year—the majority of which are children under the age of 15 years. DMRVV was eliminated in the United States in 2007 due to mandatory rabies vaccination laws for dogs