Table 1—

Number of terrestrial mammal specimens submitted to public health laboratories for RABV testing, number of RABV-positive specimens, and number of specimens that underwent RABV characterization in the United States by year during the period of January 2010 through December 2015.

	Year
Variable	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	Mean (95% CI)
No. of specimens tested	81,278	77,644	76,379	71,041	74,615	72,717	75,612 (71,768–79,456)
No. of RABV-positive specimens (%)	4,723 (5.8)	4,650 (6.0)	4,488 (5.9)	4,288 (6.0)	4,277 (5.7)	3,804 (5.2)	4,371 (4,022–4,720)
No. of RABV-positive specimens that underwent virus characterization (%)	1,341 (28.4)	1,728 (37.2)	1,257 (28.0)	1,227 (28.6)	1,209 (28.3)	1,116 (29.3)	1,315 (1,089–1,542)

Rabies surveillance data for terrestrial nonvolant mammals (excluding humans) in the United States that were submitted to the CDC during the period of January 2010 through December 2015 were included in this evaluation. Bat data were not included but underwent separate analysis.²⁰