The World Health Organization recognized the country's more than 50 years without a human case of dog-mediated rabies, crediting sustained vaccination, surveillance, and cross-sector collaboration.
|Articles|November 19, 2013
QUIZ: How much do you know about the American West's wild horse population?
A recent evaluation by a National Research Council committee sheds light on the National Wild Horses and Burros Program.
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A: The animals moved from public lands are sold or adopted, but they are also moved to short-term holding facilities and, if unadoptable, moved to long-term holding facilities. As protected animals, horses and burros removed from public lands are not slaughtered or euthanized if healthy.
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Several rabies exposure incidents have been reported across multiple states, days after the CDC issued a health advisory on rising human rabies exposures and errors in postexposure prophylaxis administration.
The CDC says multiple US jurisdictions have reported increases in human exposures to rabid or potentially rabid animals since July, along with increased use of rabies postexposure prophylaxis.
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