What animals should be euthanized according to CDC recommendations?
To protect people, pets and domestic and wild animals in the United States from the spread of monkeypox, on July 1, 2003, CDC issued recommendations to state and local government about the euthanasia (humanely putting to sleep) of certain animals. This included all African rodents from a shipment of animals imported from Ghana to Texas on April 9, 2003 that has been traced as the original source of monkeypox in the United States. The animals in the African shipment include tree squirrels, rope squirrels, Gambian giant pouched rats, brush-tailed porcupines, striped mice, and dormice. In addition, it is recommended that any prairie dogs that may have come in contact with any of these animals be euthanized. Prairie dogs that have been housed at an infected premise (defined as a location that housed animals meeting the suspect, probable, or confirmed case definition for monkeypox), either residential or commercial, should also be euthanized. These measures are considered essential in order
