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To control zoonosis outbreaks, the Japanese government has implemented a three-stage approach for the border control of zoonoses and has stipulated the monitoring and reporting of eight companion animal-borne zoonoses under the Rabies Prevention Law and the Infectious Diseases Control Law. The fact that no case of human and animal rabies has been reported over the past 50 years indicates that these measures are highly effective in preventing rabies transmission. Although it is known that the total number of possible companion animal-borne zoonosis outbreaks decreased between 2005 and 2009 when compared with numbers between 2001 and 2004, the number of zoonosis cases that can be attributed to transmission by companion animals remains unclear. Active surveillance should be conducted on a national level to collect the data necessary to determine this number and identify trends in companion-animal transmitted diseases. Using the data collected, regulation systems should be evaluated to determine whether they have met reasonable goals and policy planning conducted for the control of emerging diseases.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ani2010038","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,2,15]],"date-time":"2012-02-15T12:03:12Z","timestamp":1329307392000},"page":"38-54","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Social Environment and Control Status of Companion Animal-Borne Zoonoses in Japan"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"2","author":[{"given":"Hiromi","family":"Takahashi-Omoe","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Science and Technology Foresight Center, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, Kasumigaseki 3-2-2, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0013, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Katsuhiko","family":"Omoe","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Disease Control and Environmental Sciences, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Iwate University, Ueda 3-18-8, Morioka, Iwate 020-8550, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,2,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Weese, J.S., and Fulford, M.B. 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