# Control of Communicable Diseases; Restrictions on African Rodents, Prairie Dogs, and Certain Other Animals
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 2008-09-08 · Effective 2008-09-08 · 73 FR 51912
## Document
- **Document number:** E8-20779
- **Category:** public-health
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 73 FR 51912
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 16
- **Publication date:** 2008-09-08
- **Effective date:** 2008-09-08
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. FDA-2003-N-0427
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is removing its regulation that established restrictions on the capture, transport, sale, barter, exchange, distribution, and release of African rodents, prairie dogs, and certain other animals. We are removing the restrictions because we believe they are no longer needed to prevent the further introduction, transmission, or spread of monkeypox, a communicable and potentially fatal disease, in the United States.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2008/09/08/E8-20779/control-of-communicable-diseases-restrictions-on-african-rodents-prairie-dogs-and-certain-other)
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