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.
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.
“.......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.....”
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.
By the heading it looks like the innocent doggie wii be shot because the nurse was named. Perhaps they don’t name the nurse so doggie’s life is spared.
Just call the police!
Sniffles got you down? You need Flu Buddy!
Someone would need to pay for quarantine and care for the dog until it can be tested to be clean. That would be on the owner of the dog.
The *smart* thing to do would be to quarantine the dog and observe it for 21 days. But the health official wants to look like he’s doing something useful so he wants to kill the dog. The thing is, as I understand it, they can’t kill the dog and then examine it for Ebola, like you would kill an animal and then examine its brain for rabies. The Ebola will not show up in the bloodstream (I think) until it’s symptomatic, so killing it before symptoms appear will tell you nothing about whether or not Ebola can be transmitted easily between humans and dogs. (Which we really do need to know.)
According to the husband, the poor dog is still inside the house. So, by itself with no one to feed and water or pick up the poo. Hate to say it but the dog would be better off euthanized than come down with Ebola or infect neighborhood dogs and kids and whomever would be taking care of it.
So, they can’t kill her but will kill her dog.
His wife has Ebola and he’s worried about THE DOG?
