Posted on 10/08/2014 12:50:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Madrid health authorities have put down Ebola patient Teresa Romero Ramos' dog, Excalibur, despite protests. The animal was sedated prior to euthanasia to avoid its suffering, the Health Ministry of Madrid said in a statement.
More than 330,000 people had signed a petition on Change.org to save Excalibur. Ramos, a nurse's assistant, is in isolation after testing positive for the deadly Ebola virus earlier this week. Health authorities worried her dog may have also become infected.
Which warrants the questions: Can dogs really get Ebola and spread it to humans? What about other animals?
In Africa, Ebola infection "has been documented through the handling of infected chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats, monkeys, forest antelope and porcupines," WHO says, though researchers think fruit bats are what they call the virus' "natural host."(continued)
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Only a microscopic speck of sadness next to the human loss of life mountain of sadness.
Scary that government could kill your per possibly without cause.
How soon will they be putting down old people ?
stupid too. Why not isolate the dog and get the valuable information on whether it’s readily transmitted to dogs. The only problem is, absence of Ebola doesn’t guarantee doggy immunity.
How many people have been exposed in Spain?
My thoughts exactly. Screw the dog. What now ... hazmat suited vets and special isolation wards for animals? At some point hard decisions have to be made.
poor pooch. rip.
They do it all the time at the Humane Society. Haven’t you written a protest to them yet?
We already know that it is transmissable by dogs.
Read the stories coming out of Africa.
This was no knee-jerk unreasonable response.
This is rationality.
You cannot quarantine the dog and wait for symptoms. The dog will never show symptoms and will only be a carrier. This is a level 4 disease. Just holding him and testing him would be dangerous.
maybe to you. not to the woman who loved her dog. i wouldn’t tell certain people their sadness is microscopic compared to those who lose a person to something.
yeah it’s not a person, but it’s still a living thing that was not only an object of a person’s love, but it gave joy and affection back to the person/people that loved it.
for some people their animals are all they have left. i wouldn’t tell them their sadness was microscopic compared to a stranger they’ve never met who died. your scale may be set that way, hers probably isn’t.
and just to stop the potential assinine attack before it begins i’m not saying animals and people are equal.
I’m talking about your loved and well cared for pet, not one who is mistreated or abandoned.
To my knowledge, no one bothered to test the dog for Ebola before killing him. So they don’t know whether he even had the disease. Killing without cause is wrong.
And for the record, I abhor shelters that euthanize animals only because they have too many. I support only not kill shelters. These only euthanize if the animal is terminally ill and suffering.
dogs are mmune. they can become carriers. that’s the concern.
unfortunately they didn’t wait and simply take’blood’from the dog every few’days while isolating him, and see if ebola virus was present.
I agree with much of what you wrote.
Except, I value animals over throat cutting savages. Period.
Especially pigs.
Wasn’t it even confirmed? This is horrible if it wasn’t
This is real life folks. This has to happen every time there is a pet involved with an Ebola case.
Have we all forgotten that it is ANIMALS that are the carriers that start Ebola outbreaks in humans in the first place?
And while I feel really bad about the dog I absolutely refuse on every level to allow myself to advocate saving a pet when a human being’s life (or many human beings) might be at any nonzero risk of catching Ebola by letting that pet live.
That’s hard, but it’s necessary.
Do YOU want to be the one living with the consequences when three months later four more people die because of the dog that you thought was ‘ok’?
There is nothing good about any of this. Not a thing. Not until it’s over.
And they left patient zero’s vomit on the ground for several days before they “power washed” it . Dogs lap that stuff up .
By the way, if anyone showed up at my door to take away my perfectly healthy critter, that person would be walking funny within a few minutes.
#SAVEOUREBOLAPOOCH
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