TABLE 3.

Estimated incidence rate of rabies in dogs imported to the United States compared to U.S. dogs, 2015–2022.

Year	Number of imported rabid dogs from DMRVV-enzootic countries	Estimated number of imported dogs from DMRVV-enzootic countries [range]	Number of rabid dogs with domestically acquired rabies (enzootic wildlife variants)	Estimated U.S. dog population [range]
2015	1	57,123 [49,309–67,880]	47	74.4 million [72.2–76.7 million]
2016	0	73,085 [63,088–86,848]	36	76.8 million [74.5–79.1 million]
2017	1	89,780 [77,499–106,687]	36	79.2 million [76.8–81.6 million]
2018	0	56,890 [49,108–67,603]	35	81.6 million [79.1–84.0 million]
2019	1	137,570 [118,752–163,475]	33	83.9 million [81.4–86.4 million]
2020	0	43,384 [37,449–51,553]	25	86.3 million [83.7–88.9 million]
2021 (pre-suspension)a	1	66,372 [57,293–78,870]	28	88.7 million [86.0–91.3 million]
2021 (post-suspension)a	0	37,705 [32,547–44,805]
2022	0	18,804 [16,232–22,345]	41	91.0 million [88.3–93.8 million]
Total	4	580,713 [501,277–690,006]	281	661.9 million [642.1–681.8 million]
2015–2022 incidence rate per 1 million dogs	6.9 [5.8–8.0]		0.42 [0.41–0.44]
2015–2022 risk ratio of rabies in imported dogs compared to domestically acquired rabies in U.S. dogs	16.2 [13.2–19.4]

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