Posted on 10/07/2014 12:26:58 PM PDT by sunmars
Poor Dog, innocent little thing in all of this.
LOL, we have COPs over here that are salivating at the chance to off a dog. Where is SWAT when you need them?
Read the whole story. These animal rescue people are insane.
But...but...but, Barry and his boy, BIG Gulp Frieden said that it’s difficult to spread Ebola (except in Africa by shutting down airline service to the U.S.) and the risk of anyone getting it is “extremely low”. Why nail the poor dog?
It just gets bizarrer and bizarrerer.
Don’t even tell me a dog of mine may be a carrier and has to be incinerated.
The place that needs a high heat applied is the WH and CDC.
They should put down the dog
And the UN should stop all air traffic coming out of west Africa for a few months. Otherwise they should keep the dog alive. Because killing him int this case won’t make much difference
Stupid.
I agree poor dog, on a larger scale, does this mean all kinds of animals, racoons, deer, squirrels, house pets, dogs, cats, can carry this thing? Of all things, I hadn’t seen bats in a long time but did last night. Of course, I don’t think it’s these fruit bats from where I am but still.
I know, they are nuts,if the dog has it, then its going to spread it more......test the dog but don’t just put it down for the hell of it.
Its like the start of that film 28 days later..bloody loon animals rights started the whole thing.
jumped from animals to humans, no reason why it can’t jump between both....and believe you me if it gets into the animal population we do have a big problem......
Putting the dog down? Maybe ebola will be taken seriously now?
In all seriousness, dogs might be the most dangerous carriers. They lick everything in sight, they don’t show symptoms and ebola does not kill them.
In all seriousness, there is not one single instance documented of a person being infected with ebola by a dog.
I guess you would call this, life imitating "art".
“.......The nursing assistant in Madrid was part of a special team caring for a Spanish priest who died of Ebola last month after being evacuated from Sierra Leone. The nursing assistant wore a hazmat suit both times she entered his room, officials said, and no records point to any accidental exposure to the virus, which spreads through direct contact with the bodily fluids of a sickened person.
The woman, who had been on vacation in the Madrid area after treating the priest, was diagnosed with Ebola on Monday after coming down with a fever, and was said to be stable Tuesday. Her husband also was hospitalized as a precaution.
Madrid’s regional government even got a court order to euthanize and incinerate their pet, “Excalibur,” against the couple’s objections. The government said available scientific knowledge suggests a risk that the mixed-breed dog could transmit the virus to humans, and promised to use “biosecurity” measures to prevent any such transmission.
Spanish authorities also were tracking down all the woman’s contacts, and put more than 50 other people under observation, including her relatives and fellow health care workers. “The priority now is to establish that there is no risk to anybody else,” emergency coordinator Fernando Simon said.
Even so, the potential repercussions of Ebola’s presence in Europe became clear, as shares of Spanish airline and hotel chain companies slumped in Tuesday’s trading. Spain is Europe’s biggest vacation destination after France, and investors were apparently spooked that the deadly virus could scare away travelers.
The afflicted woman, reportedly in her 40s and childless, was not identified to protect her privacy, but nursing union officials she had 14 years’ experience. Spanish officials said she had changed a diaper for the priest and collected material from his room after he died. Dead Ebola victims are highly infectious, and in West Africa their bodies are collected by workers in hazmat outfits.....”
I wonder if any night critters ate any of Duncan’s vomit.
Rats, dogs, birds, slugs, roaches, flies...
In all fairness, the dog is a major asset. It needs to be used to determine first of all, if it has the virus. Second, is it showing effects of the virus, or is it a passive carrier. Third, through ordinary contact, can it infect other animals or people.
That is, alive, that dog is worth its weight in gold, as far as answering some *vital* questions about canine animal vectors. (Especially because in Africa, dogs may eat dead human bodies.)
They need other exposed animals as well: cats, goats, sheep, cows, horses, pigs, chickens and other birds, and even fish.
What do facts have to do with anything?
Actually, I wouldn't worry about the bats. Bats, pigs, monkeys and dogs appear to get infected based on confirmation of Ebola specific antibodies raised in animals believed to be infected-- dogs and bats seem to be asymptotic, so they could potentially serve as hosts. Unusual numbers of antelopes and porcupines have been observed dead in regions where Ebola was endemic, so it is likely they get it also, but soon die. Based on this, it is reasonable to believe that deer and other animals could get the disease.
So, why do I say don't worry about bats? It is far less likely that dogs or humans come into intimate contact with bats. Dogs are social animals that lick each other, exchanging potentially infectious fluids, so if they do in fact carry the active virus for prolonged periods (not yet known) they would be my primary concern. You will likely not come into direct contact with wild animals, but your dog and other domesticated animals/livestock might. If it ever gets that bad here, I think there will more immediate concerns. If you live in a rural area with a fenced yard you could probably protect your dog and yourself by avoiding all contact with humans-- shelter in place and accompany the dog anytime you put him/her out. That's my plan.
Getting spooky irrational, this is a Muslim’s wet dream, killing all the dogs.
Burn the witch! That’s what it sounds like.
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