Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that the U.S. would temporarily ban dog imports from more than 100 countries for at least one year due to concerns about rabies. The move comes amid a spike in dog ownership during the pandemic and it later emerged that at least 450 animals arrived in the U.S. with fraudulent rabies certificates
According to the BBC, the U.S. imports around one million dogs every year and the countries banned due to the rabies risk account for approximately six percent of that total. As this map shows, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, China, Egypt and Brazil are among the countries deemed high-risk and subject to the ban.
