CDC launches multistate investigation after imported rescue dog tests positive for rabies variant twice eradicated in U.S.

WaPo ^ | 19 Jun 2021 | Kim Bellware

[blueplum]

who regulates international dog rescues?

[metmom]

Why the heck to they delay bans on stuff like this for?

They are a risk NOW. Ban them yesterday!

[Williams]

Is people are so fanatical about rescuing dogs that they have to rescue them from overseas now?

[mewzilla]

Interesting list of states affected.

Don’t think that’s a coinkydink.

[mewzilla]

I’m thinking enemy action...

[ConservativeMind]

What is the incredible cost behind flying a mutt meant for euthanasia to the US from Azerbaijan?

Can we make the dogs infect the stupid people involved?

[Pearls Before Swine]

Old Yeller.

[Deaf Smith]

No quarantine or testing for overseas dogs?

[VTenigma]

We are quickly becoming the most stupid nation on earth. According to the ASPCA they euthanize 670,000 dogs a year. We don’t have enough rescue dogs? We have to import them from former Soviet block countries?

[rockinqsranch]

Seems to me we have many animals right here needing to be rescued. Why the ‘H’ import them?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"According to the ASPCA they euthanize 670,000 dogs a year."

[qaz123]

So they’ll investigate a dog with rabies.

But won’t investigate the deadliest virus to sweep the planet. Deadlier than Ebola, HIV, Hep C, and anything else anyone can name.

[VTenigma]

I do, and my dog is a rescue, albeit from the U.S.

[Qui is]

That’s what I was thinking. There are more than enough stray cats and dogs already here, so why are we importing them now?

[Flick Lives]

Old Yeller.

—

Or él Yeller as he’s known in Azerbaijan.

[ransomnote]

Interesting list of states affected.

Don’t think that’s a coinkydink.
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Agreed. Are they going to stage a rabies outbreak? Require slaughter of animals? Something doesn’t sound right.

[alexander_busek]

No quarantine or testing for overseas dogs?

What are you, a racist or something?!

Regards,

[finnsheep]

Untrue to say rabies eliminated in the US. Rabies is still found in bats and racoons as well as other wild animals.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

All of my house pets have been Pound Found, fixed, and never an accidental pregnancy among any of them. While I prefer dogs, people are always GIVING me cats, so same thing.

We raise Treeing Walker Coon Hounds and Plott Hounds and right now I have an English Coon Hound puppy to raise, but since all of our dogs are purebreds, the only ones that get ‘fixed’ are the unruly males that are good enough to hunt, but not good enough to breed.

Believe me, the girls and boys are NEVER alone together, unless there’s a specific reason for it. ;)

My steer that I’m raising is a cross between a Holstein Dairy cow and a Black Angus Bull - somebody jumped the fence, but it’ll all turn out for my benefit eventually, when ‘Weber’ gets back from ‘the spa’ in early spring. ;)

[VTenigma]

Tasty