# Control of Communicable Diseases; Foreign Quarantine: Importation of Dogs and Cats
> **Centers for Disease Control and Prevention** · Final rule. · Published 2024-05-13 · Effective 2024-08-01 · 89 FR 41726
## Document
- **Document number:** 2024-09676
- **Category:** public-health
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- **Federal Register citation:** 89 FR 41726
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 71
- **Publication date:** 2024-05-13
- **Effective date:** 2024-08-01
- **HHS docket:** CDC Docket No. CDC-2023-0051
## Abstract

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), issues this final rule to provide clarity and safeguards that address the public health risk of dog-maintained rabies virus variant (DMRVV) associated with the importation of dogs into the United States. This final rule addresses the importation of cats as part of overall changes to the regulations affecting both dogs and cats, but the final rule does not require that imported cats be accompanied by proof of rabies vaccination and does not substantively change how cats are imported into the United States.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/05/13/2024-09676/control-of-communicable-diseases-foreign-quarantine-importation-of-dogs-and-cats)
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