National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Division of Global Migration and Quarantine “Tails” from Quarantine: Animal Importation Stories from the On- Call Veterinarian LCDR Heather Bair Brake Zoonoses Team Quarantine Border and Health Services Branch Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious DiseasesDivision of Global Migration and Quarantine
“Tails” from Quarantine:Animal Importation
Stories from the On-Call Veterinarian
LCDR Heather Bair Brake
Zoonoses TeamQuarantine Border and Health Services
BranchCenters for Disease Control and
Prevention
Overview Animal Importation
Volume & purpose Regulatory authority
CDC Zoonoses Team Tails from Quarantine
“Bat on a Plane” “Rabid Rescue” “Cargo Ship Monkey”
Live Animal Importation - 2006
135,731 mammals 243,004 birds 1.5 million reptiles 4.8 million amphibians 228 million fish
CDC Animal Data 287,000 dogs* 26,000 nonhuman primates***McQuiston JH et al. Importation of Dogs into the United States: Risks from Rabies and Other Zoonotic Diseases. Zoonoses and Public Health, 2008: 55;421–426**Bob Mullan, CDC Zoonoses Team, Personal Communication
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service LEMIS Data
Reasons for Animal Importation Exhibition at zoos Education and research Scientific conservation
programs Use as food and other
products Tourism and immigration Commercial pet trade Personal pets Accidental
Regulating Animals and Animal Products
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA/APHIS)
Veterinary Services Animal Care
Department of Interior U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
DHHS, CDC, Division of Global Migration and
Quarantine Primary focus is human health
Authority to restrict importation of animals is related to potential health risks to humans
20 CDC Quarantine Stations at major ports
Enforce DHHS statutory authority at ports of entry
Depends heavily on federal partners at ports of entry
CDC Regulatory AuthorityImportation of Animals and Animal
Products42 Code of Federal Regulations 71 – Foreign Quarantine
Subpart F – Importations71.51 – Dogs and cats71.52 – Turtles, tortoises and terrapins71.53 – Nonhuman primates71.54 – Etiologic agents, hosts and
vectors71.56 – African rodents
Subpart D – Health Measures at U.S. Ports:
Communicable Diseases71.32(b) – Persons, carriers, things
Responding to a Public Health Threat
42 CFR 71.32(b) : Persons, Carriers, or Things When persons, carriers, or things on a carrier are suspected of being infected or contaminated, CDCmay require detention , disinfection, disinfestation, fumigation, or other measures necessary to prevent the introduction,
transmission, or spread of communicable
diseases.
Zoonoses Team MissionPrevent the introduction and spread of diseases of public health significance to humans from imported live animals or cargo containing infectious animal products
IT’S A BIRD… IT’S A PLANE… NO. IT’S A BAT ON A PLANE!