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Sustained investments in dog rabies vaccination programs and increased access to postexposure prophylaxis have led to a substantial decrease in rabies deaths associated with dogs in the Western Hemisphere (1). Despite recent dog vaccination campaigns in Pedernales, Dominican Republic, three human rabies deaths associated with dogs were reported during July– December 2018 in Pedernales, which shares a border with Anse-à-Pitre, Haiti (2). Canine rabies is endemic in Haiti and the Dominican Republic; over the past decade, Haiti has reported an eighteenfold increase in laboratory-confirmed canine rabies cases after implementation of an active rabies surveillance program, although none were reported from Anse-à-Pitre (3). Haiti conducted a three-phase national dog rabies vaccination campaign during 2017–2018, with the last round occurring during October 16, 2017–May 22, 2018, in the southern third of the country. However, the campaign did not reach the southeastern community of Anse-à-Pitre because of difficult terrain and funding constraints. Although no human or animal rabies cases had been reported from Anse-à-Pitre, health experts from Haiti and Dominican Republic were concerned that dogs from this community could be part of a cross-border enzootic rabies transmission cycle. At the invitation of the Haiti Ministry of Agriculture, a multiagency team deployed to Haiti to vaccinate dogs, conduct human and animal rabies case surveillance, collect retrospective animal and human rabies exposure and case detection data, and evaluate border crossings by dogs. Because it was an emergency outbreak response, CDC determined the activities to be nonresearch. During January 23–26, 2019, the emergency response team vaccinated 1,331 dogs in the Haitian communities directly adjacent to Pedernales (primarily comprising Anseà-Pitre and a few surrounding communities). Dogs were marked with temporary, nontoxic paint and a paper collar at the time of vaccination. A mobile phone application was used to geospatially record all vaccinations and conduct postvaccination dog-counting surveys to ensure that target coverage (>70% of susceptible dogs) was achieved (4,5). Postvaccination surveys identified vaccination marks on 191 (87%) of 220 free-roaming dogs, and enumeration of survey data resulted in an estimated population of 1,750 total dogs in the community (76% vaccination coverage among the total dog population) (Figure). To identify unrecognized human and animal rabies deaths, a survey of 92 randomly selected households was conducted, and community leaders were consulted. Thirteen dogs with rabiescompatible signs* were identified during May 2018 (one), August (one), November (two), December (two), and January 2019 (seven), suggesting that dog rabies activity increased in November and continued during the January emergency vaccination campaign. In Haitian communities that have implemented the national rabies surveillance program, 50% of dogs that are tested after developing these rabies-compatible signs are confirmed rabid (3). Household surveys found no suspected human rabies deaths in the preceding 12 months in Anse-à-Pitre. Household surveys identified 11 persons who had been bitten by dogs in the past year, only two of whom had sought medical evaluation (22%). None reported receiving rabies vaccination, and all were healthy at the time of survey. Four additional persons who had been bitten by dogs were identified during response activities. All 15 exposed persons identified during response efforts who had not initiated the rabies vaccination series were referred to the Anse-à-Pitre government hospital. Training on medical management and reporting of human rabies cases and dog bite events was conducted at the Anse-à-Pitre government hospital. The response team provided the hospital with 100 doses of human rabies vaccine and 500 rabies prevention information comic books. Human rabies immune globulin, a World Health Organization–recommended component of the rabies postexposure prophylactic treatment regimen, is not routinely available in Haiti and was not available in the Anse-à-Pitre government hospital. Three surveillance officers were trained to conduct rabies field investigations in Anse-à-Pitre using a custom-built mobile device application to investigate and report rabies exposures and manage suspected rabid animals. This application is used by Haiti’s national animal rabies surveillance program, but had not been implemented in Anse-à-Pitre and the surrounding communities until the emergency response. Surveillance

Notes from the Field: A Multipartner Response to Prevent a Binational Rabies Outbreak — Anse-à-Pitre, Haiti, 2019