[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 52 (Friday, March 18, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13197-13198]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-5384]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30 Day-05-0414X]


Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a 
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction 
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call 
the CDC Reports Clearance Officer at (404) 371-5983 or send an e-mail 
to [email protected]. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Human 
Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management and Budget by fax to 
(202) 395-6974. Written comments should be received within 30 days of 
this notice.

Proposed Project

    Ecology of Bats in Households: A Survey for Assessing Knowledge, 
Attitudes, and Health Risks--New--National Center for Infectious 
Diseases (NCID), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
    Bats are associated with many different kinds of infectious 
diseases that may be pathogenic to humans. Anthropogenic change from 
urban

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sprawl provides new roosts for bats in homes and buildings while 
reducing available natural roosts and putting humans in more frequent 
contact with bats. The largest public health concern with respect to 
bat exposure is the transmission of rabies virus--about 75% of human 
rabies deaths are from bat-associated rabies variants. The current U.S. 
guidelines for animal rabies prevention and control recommend that bats 
be excluded from houses and adjacent structures to prevent direct 
association with humans. While direct association with bats is 
certainly a risk factor for rabies transmission, little is known about 
the effects of indirect association with bats and potential adverse 
health effects. This is of public health concern because many 
organizations actually promote interactions between bats and humans, 
without consideration of public health consequences.
    The questionnaire will establish bat exposure history, general 
personal health history including frequency of post-exposure 
prophylaxis for rabies and knowledge and attitudes pertaining to bat 
roosts. The Colorado State University/United States Geological Survey 
(USGS) study provides both a background for bat and rabies virus 
ecology in the Fort Collins area, and the ability of conservation and 
health issues to be relayed to the public.
    We will evaluate health outcomes among household members by 
administering a survey focused on frequency and nature of hospital/
clinic visits, frequency of bat exposure, and frequency of post-
exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for rabies.
    The list of households with roosts is provided by Colorado State 
University bat researchers, identified through radio-tagging of bats. 
We plan to improve the knowledge of the ecology of bats and associated 
rabies transmission by assimilating rabies prevalence data in a bat 
population with data regarding the roost ecology and bat/human 
interaction ecology in a rapidly sprawling suburban area, Ft. Collins, 
Colorado. There is no cost to the respondents other than their time. 
The total annualized burden hours are 178.

                                             Annualized Burden Table
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                                                                                     Number of    Average burden/
                           Respondents                               Number of      responses/     response  (in
                                                                    respondents     respondent        hours)
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Households with Bats (n=45).....................................              81               1           30/60
Households without Bats (n=153).................................             275               1           30/60
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    Dated: March 14, 2005.
Betsey Dunaway,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 05-5384 Filed 3-17-05; 8:45 am]
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