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Published in final edited form as: Zoonoses Public Health. 2024 Mar 6;71(6):620–628. doi: 10.1111/zph.13122

TABLE 2.

Estimated number of dogs imported into the United States from DMRVV-enzootic countries, 2015–2022.

Year	DMRVV-enzootic country cargo imports	Best estimate of all dogs imported from DMRVV-enzootic countries (assume 17.6% of dogs arrive as cargo)	Lower bound estimate of all dogs imported from DMRVV-enzootic countries (assume 20.4% of dogs arrive as cargo)	Upper bound estimate of all dogs imported from DMRVV-enzootic countries (assume 14.8% of dogs arrive as cargo)

2015	10,049	57,123	49,309	67,880
2016	12,857	73,085	63,088	86,848
2017	15,794	89,780	77,499	106,687
2018	10,008	56,890	49,108	67,603
2019	24,201	137,570	118,752	163,475
2020	7632	43,384	37,449	51,553
2021 (pre-suspension)^a	11,676	66,372	57,293	78,870
2021 (post-suspension)^a	6633	37,705	32,547	44,805
2022	3308	18,804	16,232	22,345
Average (all years)	12,770	72,589	62,660	86,258
Average 2015–2019	14,582	82,890	71,551	98,499
Average 2020–2022	9750	55,422	47,840	65,858

Abbreviation: DMRVV, dog-mediated rabies virus variants.

On July 14, 2021, CDC implemented a suspension prohibiting dogs to enter the United States from DMRVV-enzootic countries (CDC, 2021).